I Ate No Goodies For a Year

I ate no goodies for a year lost weight as fast as others put it on sixty-four pounds gone did it one of the worst possible ways ate lettuce drank water for a year nothing else passed my lips my tiny waist was laughable my mother offered to make me a suit she did, and it was marvelous except way too small I laughed when I saw it. That’s a baby suit, I told her. I cannot wear that! The waist was only twenty-eight inches. my mother had measured wrong! She told me to try it. The waist was too big; I could spin the skirt. my mother had made a point while I was seeing myself heavy others knew I was starving myself I began to eat