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Weighing Heavy
Carolyn Garwes
’Your scales weigh heavy,’ says my daughter,
every time she uses them. She’s right.
But it’s little compensation for those extra pounds
my too tight trousers groan about.
Even my mirror has taken to making faces at me,
like some cracked reject Snow White’s
or Cinderella’s step-mum might have given
to the palace bring-and-buy.
’No good moaning at me,’ it says.
’Standing there in your nothings with it all hanging out.
That’s what you get for months of king-size Mars bars
and red wine by the bucketful.’ It’s right.
And hiding under winter woollies half the year
has covered up a multitude of sins.
Now that summer has suddenly arrived
and all the princesses are flaunting flesh,
I want to go to the ball too in my skimpy best.
Fat chance. Ah well, middle-aged queen mothers
must accept their limitations. Going through a change
I may be — but it’s not all for the better.
’Life weighs heavy sometimes,’ my daughter says,
as we have another glass of wine. She’s right.
