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We're going out for lunch

Mom announces one morning

I freeze with her words

Like I'm naked in the snow

She says we're going to a fancy restaurant

Up at the higher class part of town 

Around where she works

Because it's my second cousin is coming over she says

She is twenty-one and lives

On the other side of the world

So her visits are supposed to be 'special'

But I can't go

I won't go 

Imagine the calories, the oil

The deep-frying and preservatives

No

I am not going

I am not walking into my living nightmare

For fun 

Not even for my family

I'm sick I tell mom

She places a hand on my forehead 

And says I'm not hot

So I should be fine

But then she looks at me 

Takes in my face and bones

The bones that barely hold me up 

Stay at home she says

And I know when she turned around 

To face the wall

Once again

There were tears in her eyes