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Reads Wrong

I swear that scale is wrong
okay, maybe I’m over-reacting here
maybe I’ve lost weight
maybe I’m too worried
that I’ll gain all that weight back
I can’t see the lines
on the scale when I
weigh myself and I keep
thinking that someone is playing
a little joke on me
so I’ll never know this information

I always want answers
and I wanted them yesterday
and I don’t even have patience
to wait for somebody else

those are my reasons, I think

why does nobody notice
that I weigh less?
Maybe they do notice
but they don’t bother
to mention it
that’s what I
like to think, anyway

Okay, so maybe the scale reads wrong
but I feel that I feel
different
so does no one notice


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