Robert Southwick Richmond

Lines for a BBW

 

LINES FOR A BBW

 

fat is wine

your big cool arms

flow in my veins like milk

         poor little Gloria Vanderbilt

 

fat is drug

your drunk breasts

suck hungryjangly brainmouths

         where are you now Janis Joplin

 

fat is food

your big moons

would feed me running clear to Texas

         eat your heart out Jean Nidetch

 

fat is love

your big body

worldlovebed

         faretheewell Jackie O

 

surcease clawing yourself

lie with me tonight