by Shawn Bailey

Created on: November 26, 2010

I am craving a fudge bar

but I shouldn't eat one.

So MANY Calories.

I should have a Popsicle,

and I stare at Lucille Ball

some more

driving away the craving

with bungling, Red Head antics

but a sudden commercial

makes me ravenous

and I wrestle myself

Inside

as I often do

and lose

and get up

and go to the laundry room

and open the floor freezer.

I've put the highest

Calories

under Megan

where they are much

harder to get

thinking

my laziness will

prevent my obesity

but I dig my arm

around under Megan

until out comes a fudge bar.

It sticks briefly to her

skin, and I pull it free

but she doesn't make

a sound

because I told her not to.

She's just an Embryo-shaped

cicle, all shivery.

There's no head movement

when she looks out the corner

of her eye at me

and I see fear,

and I feel guilty

because I know she

is afraid of my

Lack of Will Power.

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