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Invisible Woman

I used to get wolf whistled

Regularly

And I snarled back

'I am not an object'

Now I am invisible

I don't know when it happened

Whether a day tripped over into the next

And the hecklers

No longer saw me

Or whether it was gradual

When I went from waving

The sex flag boldly

To having the colour slowly

Drain from me

Until no-one saw me at all

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Super Size Super Skinny

Super Size Super Skinny

Oh, Doctor Christian

So handsome in that half-man half-horse kind of way

I love your style

Patronisingly handing down little nutritious nuggest of wisdom

To the morbidly obese and the dangerously thin

-This is what you eat in a week

Does it shock you?-

A tube representing your intestines

Stuffed to the brim with gak

Saturated fat

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