Description: Prose – follows fragmentation, rhyming, etc. of typical poetry forms.

Prompt: Think of a challenging life issue (food/diet/addiction), make a list of 3 life stages (waking, napping, bedtime), a book a movie a song (American Gods, Avatar, Uptown Girl), 3 body parts (Patella, fingernail, eyebrow). Use these to find a perspective on the life issue. I did not succeed the first push through this, it is included below, but I want to try again.

Perspective1: looking at food at bedtime while listening to Uptown Girl picking at my fingernails …

Perspective2: napping after binging, falling asleep listening to American Gods feeling the pain in my knees and wishing I could get a grasp on my addiction

Perspective3: bedtime, pulling at my eyebrows in contemplation of my food choices throughout the day while the movie Avatar plays in the background to lull me to sleep

Fingering my brows, thick course, needing a trim, weaving through worth thoughts, of bedtime snacks, of midday chains to stay me at my desk, to work, to drone, to hate – to accomplish – to get paid. “You don’t thank” admonishments penetrate deep, the tv too loud, the movie too honest, words echo through the air conditioning, into my guilt, choices bleat against my body still representative of the years of failure, of weakness, of desire, of excuses, of blame, of habit. I’m strong, I’m smart, I can, I do, and I’m weak, wanting to suckle on a spoon of peanut butter. I hate my day of good choices, ruined by one gluttonous desire, drawn like the moth to flame, the bee to honey, the fly to crap, the mob to violence, the me to food.