When I can’t cope
I look for hope
In empty calories
In salted snacks and melted cheese
Food gives relief
Though not without grief
For the less I abstain
The more weight I gain
And perhaps even worse
The comfort’s inverse
The more I find in chow
The less my trousers offer now
James Proclaims! 
21 responses to “A Rapid Rhyme That Continues A Recent Theme About Pandemic Overeating”
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Don’t be distraught, just carry on and carry the extra poundage well.
As you spread far and wide
Toss the frayed belt aside,
Hello hotdogs and chicken tenders
And heavyweight suspenders.
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I could carry off suspenders
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I’m bracing myself…
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This poem really got me in the gut.
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But weight; there’s more.
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To eat the doughnut whole, or eat the doughnut hole? That is the question.
An empty choice for some, but not for others.
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I think we’re just going in circles now
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Very expansive!
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Quite so
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When I’m not feeling divine, I drink lots of wine. The calories are there, but I really don’t care, because there aren’t a lot, and it really hits the spot:-)
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I find my wine gets lonely and needs chips to keep it company
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I never know if that means potato chips or French fries, but either will do just fine!
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I’m happy with either interpretation too
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Oh, yes, a secondary effect from COVID, too much time at home with nothing to do but eat. Argh!
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I could just not buy the bad food in the first place though but somehow that never seems to be an option
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(Sung to the tune of “The Way We Were”)
Calories, Light the corners of my mind
Crispy sugar coated calories
And how thin we were
Can it be that there was so much salad then
Why have snacks rewritten every line
If I had the chance to eat Ice Cream again
Or chocolate cookies, Snookies
Weight gain. I Must buy a Peloton
I will pedal and eat donuts.
To Heck with how we were
Try Laughter It might catch on
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That is beautiful
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Were you able to sing it
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I wish I lived in one of those countries where people deemed fat as being attractive. The people (women) that really annoy me are the ones that have the nerve to say that they wish they could gain some weight. I feel like saying, “Yes, you’d look so much better if you did”, but of course, I can’t say things like that so I resort to insincerity.
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Insincerity has seen me through many a potentially awkward conversation
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