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# Aunt Mabel
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/aunt-mabel/
- Published: 2024-06-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Perfection, though just narrowly achieved, Aunt Mabel ceases gazing at her navel. Her face now nearly permanently peeved, Ozempic face -- she's getting it off-label -- but losing those pernicious last few pounds, the...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Perfection, though just narrowly achieved,  
Aunt Mabel ceases gazing at her navel.  
Her face now nearly permanently peeved,  
Ozempic face -- she's getting it off-label --  
but losing those pernicious last few pounds,  
the hips regaining youthful definition...  
The pleasure she should take should know no bounds:  
is there a crucial task, a higher mission,  
then winning in this battle of the bulge?  
And yet she cannot help it, something's wanting.  
Gone too is her desire to indulge,  
a shadow of a ghost that's barely haunting  
this newmade version of her perfect self.  
Next week's Ozempic safely on the shelf.

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