Lives To Eat

37 % of adult Americans eat to live; the remaining 63% live to eat. This latter group is classified as overweight/obese. The protagonist in this literary work is one of them. She sits alone on a stuffed chair That once had rigid, durable Springs; but that was a hundred pounds ago. Today this amoebic, shapeless Behemoth is eating a pie- a large pizza with anchovies. She is separating her fifth Piece but momentary pauses… Burps, and with her greasy fingers Gropes for the channel selector And rapidly surfs the channels until she reached the food network. She resumes eating the fifth piece Eyeing the remaining pieces.