The Slip Dress

I’ve done well for weeks

but want to wear a dress

that is tight

So tight, you have to fast.

to look good

for an AA wedding.

Like a regular wedding

but with recovering alcoholics all joking

everyone will remember it

the next day.

Black-and-white vertical stripes strain

to stay integrated around my hips.

Starvation is your only option, pork chop.

I am just     so hungry.

Break down over a bag of frozen Ore-Ida!s.

Three shifts in the microwave

salt them up       shove them down

greasy fingers       moving quickly.

Until

You will never fit that dress

date will be here in an hour

you have no choice

but to flush those

tots away.

I did it again

a stupid failure.

Should’ve known

I can’t change.