I will abstain

On Coping #133

I go on a diet.

In the lead-up to Christmas.

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For three work-weeks straight I eat little sugar.

No bread, no potatoes, no chocolate.

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I eat grapefruit juice and protein.

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It’s difficult but strangely satisfying.

Depravation seems addictive.

A form of control

perhaps.

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Meanwhile

I sleep for five hours.

I have denied myself alcohol now for two years.

My skin is no longer touched by another.

679 days since I was last kissed.