Alex Vigue: How Does It Feel to Get Fatter?
John Sting
How does it feel to get fatter?
How does it feel to get fatter?
It feels like a shower that’s the perfect temperature. You become one with the water. You’re likely to run down the drain.
How does it feel to get fatter?
It feels like a disappointment to my parents, grandparents, community, society, myself. It feels like losing a pebble you’ve held in your pocket for five years and grown very fond of.
How does it feel to get fatter?
Sexy! Expansive! A wet dream where you feel an orgasm for the first time, unconsciously, so it feels like an everyday bodily function but with a new perk. A better reason to do it.
Holding yourself more, taking up more, sinking deeper into the fabric of your bed, the fabric of space, gaining new orbiters!
How does it feel to get fatter?
My organs want to get out. My lungs want to find a vacuum so they can expand forever. Heart wants to find a racetrack and bet or run or cheer and not care about anything else. Brain needs a cigarette to distract itself for just a goddamn minute! Stomach is fine where it is, just heavy.
How do you feel when you get fatter?
Conflicted.
Alex Vigue is a queer poet and storyteller from Washington State. Alex has been published in Phantom Drift, The Fem, and Witch Craft Magazine. He is the fiction editor for Dirty Chai Lit Magazine and he hopes to have a collection of his works published soon. You can find him and links to his other work on twitter @Kingwithnoname.
