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  Stacey Jones


Published on: 12/15/2014
On Being Married to An Eating Disorder

She's not so obvious
as to cut a hamburger into quarters
eat one, save the other three,
for a fantastical futuristic era
in which she would understand
how thin she is.
But she still leaves
food on her plate to demonstrate
her rejection of surfeit,
her acceptance of hunger.

Research asserts
when other people see a photo of cake,
their brains light up in their
pleasure centers.
Looking at a mere picture of chocolate
her brain's judgment arenas
go wild.
And she wades into a deep morass
of neuro-assessment for the real thing,
sorting through the votes for
permission, denial.

What attends every bite she takes
in that unforgiving brain,
that hard perfecter of self?
When the dinner bell rings,
So many synapses at roll-call.

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