Thursday, January 15, 2026

special dietary needs

she didn't
eat
meat, or sugar, or bread,
or crackers,
or pasta
or cakes
or cookies, or eggs.
fish
on rare occasions,
but never
pig
or steak.
not a single mint
was in
her purse.
lips that touched
wine
would never touch hers.
i often worried,
as i helped her about,
when her
legs would
break
under 98 pounds of
trembling weight.

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