There are shelves and shelves of books about love - but we can live without love. We can't live without food. Most of us have a much more fraught relationship with food than we do with our lover(s).
"I began writing these poems in 2009 at roughly the same time as I decided - at last - to get rid of the blubber that had accumulated over the years. As with my virginity all that time ago, I don't regard myself as having lost those extra pounds, so much as having delightedly thrown them away. I used a slimming club (worth every penny), invested in various forms of therapy to understand my compulsive eating (expensive), and wrote poetry. Cheap, but helpful. This book includes recipes. Obviously." Patricia Finney
"I began writing these poems in 2009 at roughly the same time as I decided - at last - to get rid of the blubber that had accumulated over the years. As with my virginity all that time ago, I don't regard myself as having lost those extra pounds, so much as having delightedly thrown them away. I used a slimming club (worth every penny), invested in various forms of therapy to understand my compulsive eating (expensive), and wrote poetry. Cheap, but helpful. This book includes recipes. Obviously." Patricia Finney
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