Maddie Macleish Poet Prose

Let's Make a Movie

Inspired by “Dinosaurs in The Hood” by Danez Smith.


Let’s make a movie. About a fat girl. But in this one, she isn’t bullied all her life and rises above it to become thin and successful later in life. Or an awareness movie where she commits suicide because the kids at school call her a whale. No, in this one she is brought up in a good home with a loving and supportive family. She has lots of friends who are amazing. She is always in a positive environment. Let’s make a movie about a fat girl who knows that she is fat but does not know the word fat in a negative form. She sees herself as fat but also as beautiful because that is all she has ever been told. Because that’s what she is: beautiful. 



The word fat should not be used as an insult. It should not be used in a derogatory way. It should not be used to make girls’ self-worth vanish. It’s a description. You’re given one body: love it. No matter what it looks like: it is yours. For 18 years, it is the only thing that is yours. Love it. 

                                              -Maddie MacLeish

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Darren White October 10, 2017 at 4:34 AM I love this. You can call it prose, I think that is what it is, more than Free Verse. (Because Free Verse isn't so free at all :) But I absolutely agree what you wrote, it's very powerful and inspirational. Thank you and welcome to PoetrySoup :) Maddie Macleish October 10, 2017 at 8:07 AM Thank you for your comment! This is the first poem I've ever written so I am not too informed on all of the types so thanks for the suggestion. I appreciate it!