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Happiness

emotive.eleven's picture

Those jeans shouldn't fit me.
I bought them
before I grew up and out
before I thought
of hotlines or The Used,
band aids or naivity.
They're jeans of another era,
where I was a size one
without
wanting it or wishing that I didn't
want it.
I'm not a size one.
I didn't fit into these jeans
in December,
I squeezed into them
and held my breath
and still hated my butt.
So they shouldn't fit me now.
But I'm happy they do?
I'm happy I lost sixteen pounds?
Am I happy knowing that
every one of those pounds
was not lost happily?
(No.)

qwertygirl890123's picture

oh god EE... I didn't think

Submitted by qwertygirl890123 on July 13, 2008 - 09:02.

oh god EE... I didn't think you ever actually went through with it... I'm here, always.
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