Poem: The Fallacy of the Fact of Fat by Cathryn Shea

The Fallacy of the Fact of Fat

By Cathryn Shea
@cathy_shea
QuailBellMagazine.com

Obesity is an adipose belief of yourself as a substance.
—Mary Baker G. Eddy, “Science and Health”
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(i)
Food does not exist, except in material falsehood, a vision created by “mortal mind.” The lowly bowl of mashed potatoes set on the table is an idea of eternal thought, no more real than the tuber in the ground, the soil being an illusion itself. And of this imaginary realm is butter, melted in a yellow puddle in the middle of the mound, conjured from the cow. 
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(ii)
The cow is an aspect of Divine Intelligence, its milk an expression of liquid, an interpretation of water from which the concept of cream pours forth. The idea of fat arises, and then the notion that this can be churned. Voila, the semblance of butter appears in the pantry. Butter has no calories. The calorie is an erroneous concept which only exists in school books.
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(iii)
Butter slathered in great quantities on food, all of which is imagined, can be eaten or not eaten to no effect. Fat passes as nothing through the temple of the body. And it sparkles.