Lines for a BBW

Robert Southwick Richmond

 

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

  • Author: Robert Southwick Richmond (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 14th, 2021 11:13
  • Comment from author about the poem: Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-2019): Fashion designer and socialite who said: You can never be too rich or too thin. – Jean Nidetch (1923-2015) founded Weight Watchers.
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  • Robert Southwick Richmond

    Big Beautiful Woman. The word was coined by Carol Shaw, who started a magazine called BBW some time in the 1980s. (It folded many years ago.) The word is well known in the US, perhaps not elsewhere. I can only love a fat woman. Fortunately I'm very happily married to one.



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