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Written by Jocelyn Bates   

The Body is in full swing election
Campaigning for a Senate seat in the House of Body Image
An underdog
Bony knuckles shift unbound in the fight for dominance
Given half a chance between nicotine streaked fingers
And crash diets
She blocks the mental carcinogens spewed from lips
All too familiar with late night binges
Her slogan:
Hunger only believes it's beautiful
When beautiful becomes sculpted out of hunger

Chiseled marble forms in magazines and all the young girls follow the model Pied Piper
The candidate clutches her skin over ribs stretching their way back to healthy
After a brief encounter with its opponent's tactics
Plastic surgery marking pouches of "excess"
The body approaches the podium
"As many of you know, I have, in the past, fallen victim to the shallow
And I'm here to tell you
The only hunger that's beautiful
Is the hunger to know yourself.
Together we can fight the opposition
Take back the power of
Blood breath bones
Let's look in the mirror with naked reverence
At what each sacred body has to offer us
Lets unstitch the seams of size 0 fabric
Quilt in patches to embrace that "excess"
It need not define us
It's not just skin in reflection but a masterpiece of excellence"

The body pauses
Notices
A demonstration swelling
Wallets fat with weight watchers and waif fashionistas
Pouty lips and high rollers on the strip of celebrity
Hunger is beautiful!
Hunger is Beautiful!
Her stomach growls in protest
Still stretch-marked with the roadmap to supposed perfection
She eats a sandwich
She laughs
Soon she will have the floor
She will filibuster Teen Magazine for each girl
Making decisions based on air brushed images
For every woman weighing worth with a scale
Yes . these fat fists are taking on the industry
She's voting for herself.

About the Author

Words can be fierce advocates for our rights~our body~our heart~and our spirit - Jocelyn Bates is a spoken word poet & feminist writer dedicated to eXpression in its many forms ... www.artsetc.net.

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