poem Overweight Reasons, a poem about a fat family at Kmart spending money on candy to get a cash back bonus, By Chicago Poet and performance artist Janet Kuypers

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Overweight Reasons
Janet Kuypers
6/2/12
An obscenely overweight woman
parked the Kmart brand electric wheelchair
at the front of the store
while her fat daughter watched.
Her son came walking over from the check-out line
(who looked like he was seven months pregnant)
and told her,
“We’re only fifty nine cents short
of getting a Kmart five dollar gift card!”
And the obscenely overweight mom replied,
“Why didn’t you buy a candy bar then?”
And I thought of three overweight reasons
why he shouldn’t have,
but I couldn’t say it. I wouldn’t say it.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (C) Overweight Reasons from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (S) Overweight Reasons from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

my hand to an anim of jkchair