What Is A Fat Girl For?

What, oh what can a fat girl do?
What is it that she can be?
Where, when, or why is a fat girl here?
What makes her special, especially?

Is she a shield in a snowball fight?
Someone you can only kiss at night?
Someone to point at when you're feeling blue
To forget that you are really you?
Someone to be funny, to make you smile
So that you might go the extra mile
And decide to sympathize
And ask her out, despite her size?
Someone to follow, to find the best food?
Someone to mark when you're in a bad mood?
The first person to eat, should it come to that?
Because, of course, she's exceptionally fat
Shade to bask in on a hot summer day?
Someone who's kinda cute, from far away?
Someone, who would look really great
If only she would lose some weight?

A sidewalk cracker
A Sunday snacker
Though you know she eats everyday
A literal ice-breaker
An earth-quake maker
A 'Gee, great to meet you, but I can't stay'

What, oh what can a fat girl do?
What is it that she can be?
Somewhere along the line, I'd like to tell you
But it can't all be explained out, you see

So, should you see a fat girl waddling by
Give her a smile and a 'hi'
And ask her why she is that way
And you might get an answer…someday

Chonte' D. Wesson

 

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