Sell-you-light/that’s right

they try to sell you lite beer/lite cake/lite
cookies/

pepsi lite/99% fat-free

but who’s trying to be fat-free?

certainly not me

let me see your thighs jiggle

they’re jiggling, baby

                     
go `head, baby

This is a poem for the fat girls like me

Don’t tell me I’m not fat

That’s like saying I’m not Black

yes technically my skin is brown

but I say I’m Black because I’m 

down with the Blackness

like I’m down with the fatness

because fat is health is life is fertility is
womanly

let me see your belly jiggle

it’s jiggling, baby

                 
go `head, baby

It’s the way women’s bodies are built — we jiggle

even really thin women jiggle a little

unless they work out to have a body of steel

but who wants to look like that? get real!

This poem is a thank you 

to the big bodacious mujeres de Cuba 

who taught me by example to know no shame/

show no shame

to the big body women of the West Indies

who know how to wind/wind/wind at

Carnival time/time/time

let me see your hips jiggle

they’re jiggling, baby

                    
go `head, baby

a sick society 

turns women’s bodies into problems to be solved

cuz anorexia ain’t sexier 

& bulimia ain’t dreamier

Therefore next time you count calories, don’t
forget

to count the thousands of years that women’s suitors

have thought that cellulite was quite all right
& were

ready to embrace abundance

So next time you’re working out on your nordic
trac

Don’t forget to savor the sensual feeling of sweat 

sliding down the rolls in your back

& next time you’re working out in step aerobics
class

don’t forget to enjoy the bounce of your ass

it’s jiggling, baby

               
go `head, baby

Special thanks to LLCoolJ for the sample

Cellulite has been an Off-the-Scale production

Aya de Leon
http://www.ayadeleon.com/cellulite.html