Rude Fat Woman

In a narrow supermarket aisle, she smashes
your shopping cart with a hip huge enough
to breach a fortified city, and knocks it over,
slamming your toddler to the tiles and breaking
his neck. When she starts to leave the scene,
you shout, "Wait!"—which she interprets
as mockery of fat people. Offended, she returns,
and retaliates by trampling the tiny child.

You try to drag her away
from the boy, but discover quickly that
an ant would have better luck hefting
a Krispy Kreme donut—which, by the way,
she spies a dozen of among the items strewn
around the floor. She squats on the tiles
like a walrus out of water and ravenously devours
twelve donuts in under four seconds. Immediately
afterward, she burps, raising the air pressure
to 200,000 psi, which brings about
the gravitational collapse of the supermarket
and all within it. A black hole now squats
in the center of your city, eating, growing,
eating, growing, eating, eating, eating.

© Fred Longworth