5 Reasons To Date A Girl With An Eating Disorder Poem by Megan Maughan

5 Reasons to Date a Girl With an Eating Disorder
1- Her obsession over her body will improve her overall looks! Her hands are soft with lotion to smooth the teeth marks on her knuckles. Her nails are always well manicured so they don't scratch her throat.
2 - She costs less money! When you take her out to dinner with your friends, you will have to buy her nothing more than a salad. As she slices her lettuce leaves into thirds, your friends will stare, trying not to ask you what is wrong with her.
3 - She's fragile and vulnerable. Her skin will bruise when you hug her too tightly, her shoulder bones digging into your arms. You will have to hide all of the knives and box cutters in your apartment, will find yourself wondering if she can hurt herself with a fork.
4 - She probably has money of her own. She will hate herself for how her disorder hurts you, but it's too hard to talk about it, so her apologies are disguised as gifts. Picking up the bill: I'm sorry I threw up your mother's Thanksgiving dinner. Basketball tickets: I'm sorry that most weekends I am too tired to get out of bed. A new watch: I'm sorry you have to spend your time watching me die.
5 - When you lie next to her, you can trail your fingers down her spine, feel each vertebrae pushing out of her skin, all the way down her back in a perfect line, The last bridge she has left to burn. You can run your hands over the hills of her ribs.
Date a girl with an eating disorder. Watch her transform from a girl, to a body, to a skeleton with skin, to a skeleton in a box. Remember how this was supposed to be easy, how dating a girl with an eating disorder wasn't supposed to be this way. But this is what it really is.