what are you reading?

what are you reading these
days, I ask
her over the phone.

huh? she says.
who has time to read.
I did a hundred sit ups
this morning
before work.

I ran five miles, then
did twenty five
push ups.
a dozen leg lifts.

I rode my bike twenty
miles,
then went for a swim.

I reached my goal on my
fit bit, ten thousand steps.

and tomorrow i'll do it
again.

i'm the same size I was
in high school.
fit as a fiddle, tummy
tight,

i'm starving myself,
and I have a headache
all the time,
but i'm perfectly thin.