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beautification campaign

Liposuction for everyone who can recite

the Pledge of Allegiance! Lip gloss, Lee

Press-On Nails arrive weekly in the mail.

The turkey is always fat free & the cottage

cheese is nothing but protein. Helicopters

drop leaflets, but in truth, no one understands

the food pyramid. & so I’m inconsolable—

I can’t get rid of these love handles. The woman

in the radio tells me to eat more hearts

of palm but I don’t know

what they look like. Bundles of skin-

tight tracksuits are thrown on each stoop

like the morning paper & I think gastric

bypass is the answer for me. I stay up late

& cut out coupons for Botox injections,