Pogo A-Gogo

Bounces and Ounces –

A Limericked Riot on Aiming to Diet

With sheets and sheets of diets quick,

That claim to slim both dude and chick –

I must confide,

No truth to hide,

My weight is like a Pogo Stick.

Just up and down, curvaceous still,

This complicated act of will,

Beneath my smile,

There all the while,

No latitude or simple pill.

Too proud for weigh-ins at the gym,

To mark wee losses, still prelim –

I find a place

To trace the chase,

Awaiting figure, oh so slim.

My weight loss journal bears a page

To count my intake and to gauge,

But its result

Is just tumult

That stimulates my earnest rage.

So still I bounce, in Pogo form,

While pining for my figure norm.

It’s “Adios

To adipose” –

My morphing figure to transform.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Image/s:

Pig on a Pogo Stick

Artist Unknown

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“sheets and sheets)

Friday Funnies (humor)

Meme Express (Sunday Invitation to Simply Snickers)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

Saturday Scribes (“complicated,” “curvaceous,” “latitude,” “beneath”)

Simply Snickers (“page,” “place” and “proud”)

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