Obesity Britain

(Inspired by an early-morning stroll along Market Hill, in Sudbury, Suffolk).

‘Obesity Britain,’ reads the stand.
Obsequious Brits, sucked in,
changing pennies for
The Daily Mail.
A daily struggle – paper fat with stories.
Obstipated paper, stuffed full with
stories to shame, to stigmatise, to solidify, to pump up, to blow up, to fatten out a
starving
Britain.

Sanity seats itself on the pavement,
props up the news seller’s stand,
plucks a string and
strums,
struggling to find a tune,
to find a melody –
a song to
coax
his skinny form into
existence.

Sanity draws up its own headline.

‘Please donate generously!’

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, Weds 12th Sept. 2018

Obesity Epidemic article in Daily Mail