I feel fat today–unattractive, dumpy.
Like those gray, formless cloud-lumps hanging over the foothills.
Like that bulbous row of resource-sucking cottonwoods along the river.
Like that annoying crow that caws, caws, caws
    to keep everyone away from its road-kill dinner.

Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.