We Apologise for Our Bodies
Added 2024-05-14 06:59:44 +0000 UTCWe go to yoga class.
We apologise for our bodies.
We work 50 hours a week.
We apologise for our bodies.
We rise to the top of our chosen fields.
We apologise.
We raise six toddlers and five labradoodles.
We apologise.
We go out for milk.
We play.
We laugh.
We forget, for a while, that we are supposed to apologise for our bodies.
We apologise for our bodies even as we sleep, for in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god of the svelte, the small, the god of the traditionally sexy.
And the word was made flesh,
but only if our bones crawl through our flesh.
Only if our fat index is small enough to qualify for a fashion week catwalk
or an anorexia ward
or a feeding tube.
In the beginning the word was made flesh
so we apologise for our bodies.
We go to the supermarket
and express our shame
through the emptiness of our shopping carts,
for the flesh is god only if we do not eat,
do not look into mirrors,
do not feel the sheer
weightlessness of
not
apologising
for our bodies.
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