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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Food For Thought</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She hid it</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but it became clear to her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">even as a child</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she was obsessed with food-</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">all the world and her relationships in it-</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">became things to be tasted; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">consumed.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In her twenties she did not date men</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she tasted them</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and became bored</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with them as one becomes</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">bored with the routine</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of every day the same meal; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">food was orgasmic to her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in its variety</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but too, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">this was something she had to hide</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because being that way also</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">had its guilty side; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">all day long</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she thought about what she would eat</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that night</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and the next day</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or even reliving</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a last meal</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">re-tasting it in her mouth</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it all seemed natural to her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because it seemed to her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">others seemed to share as well</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">foods power.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It was a need to take</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the outside in</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to feel it in her mouth</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">swallow it down</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">tongue on texture</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">then a final act</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of it resting inside her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as she digested it, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sometimes bulimically</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to assuage guilt</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it being hidden heavings</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in bathrooms, hers and those</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of her friends</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but always returning</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to the need to fill up the Empty</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to feel full</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">filled</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to make it through some nights</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">eating</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to assuage grief</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sometimes to celebrate</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">often late at night secret eating</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">munching, ingesting</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">taking in</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">gorging on</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">cake and ice cream</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">chocolate</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and potato chips</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">even beer</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or liqueur</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with exotic</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">items like mangos</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and papayas</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">all carefully laid out before her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because she liked the ritual of it</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the handing</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the smells</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the preparations and the cooking; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">fork and spoon lifting high</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to the altar of her mouth</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to her wide lips</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">resting briefly upon her fiery tongue</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to the savoring</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the plunging onward</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into the alimentary canal</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to its final</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">warm resting place</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">inside.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And then the guilt</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">always the guilt</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">about what she had done</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">then on to the next day obsession about her weight</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the battle of the bulge</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of the unwanted thickening sure to come</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of the terrifying knowledge</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">her eating at night</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it would show up</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">decorating her waist line</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">her hips, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">her thighs</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">crime and punishment come alive</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">visible for all to see.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She reveled in her pregnancy</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">eating herself</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to 51 additional pounds</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and not losing all of them back</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">despite furious exercise; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">ultimately welcoming mother hood</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because cooking for her kids kept her in touch</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with food</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and after all</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">no mother</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">was expected to be thin; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and then escalator down</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she gradually gave up</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">food had won</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and she knew</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that with advancing age</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she could not lose back the years.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In despair, kids and husband now gone</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she decided that it was not the food she'd been carving</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">all those years</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">rather it was a feeling of being filled up</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">being loved</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">food was just a poor substitute</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And dear reader you ask what then? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She fell in love with a younger man</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">half her age</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and he reciprocated.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the excitement of his loving her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">made her feel for the first time in years</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">love</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and gradually over a year</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">she lost the need for food<br>as a crutch.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">More and more it became</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">for her a thing past.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Oh she did not suddenly become a size two</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but she did become a better her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">more energy</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and she needed that energy</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">becoming more and more thrilled</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with whom she then was.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And yes, the two did last; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">food not so much exiled</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as becoming for her</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">only a once over-indulged<br>repast<br>from her past.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a></strong></div>