POETS Day: Antisocial Sonnet #4

Female Figurine, Egyptian Predynastic Period, ca 3650-3300 BCE (Brooklyn Museum)

Antisocial Sonnet #4

Obsession

The lady lingers long before the mirror

Distressed by what she sees below her belt:

An image so distorted by her fear

It wrings from her an outcry most heartfelt.

“My butt’s too big!” she cries. “I cannot fight

The fact that everything I eat is thus

Metabolized to dreaded cellulite;

I’ll soon be bigger than a city bus!”

Then bitterly she turns her gaze away

From stark betrayal by her looking gl...