I probably got it from physics class, too :)
Thanks for the encouragement!

I think this poem is a good social commentary on the weight loss industry and the pressure on women to look perfect, even if it comes about in unhealthy ways. I like the style and the subject matter and I think this is a well written poem. Thanks for sharing! Side note: I love that word, sinusoid, last time I heard that was a physics class. 

I loved this, particularly the contrast of the social commentary and the infomercial title. 

However, I got a little tangled in the closing lines. I still think they are lovely but something about the punctuation and the rhyme slipped me out of focus and I had to reread. I liked the "mind and remind" a lot, but combined with the "inexorable time," I just lost my place. That could be a personal problem, but I regained footing at "decaying" and the closing brought me back in. 

Great work!!

Make my urn an hourglass.

Burn away my problem areas

with the rest;

Fully detoxed, I'll start fresh

as a vessel

sculpted better

than my flesh.

And use me, really, do,

so that even in death

I can mind and remind

that inexorable time

warps a woman's sinusoid lifelines

decaying even perfect tens

into nines...

A tragic fate; it won't be mine.



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