The diet starts with a single grain of rice, day one

Cooking a preference no real need.

 

Day two on waking hunger bites

Two grains of rice a meagre sustenance

 

Day three and four grains of rice

A detox starts it cruel dance

 

Day five eight grains allowed during the day

The mind and body increasingly elsewhere

 

Day six and sixteen grains cannot prepare

The dieter from the fire starting to burn within

 

Day seven to ten the dieter must live on will alone

Hardly able to count out the daily grains

 

Day eleven a generous five hundred and twelve grains

Fully a quarter portion of rice to consume

 

Day twelve and a half portion is not enough

But the dieter starts to sense the dawn

 

Day thirteen and a full portion of rice 

A point of equilibrium for the body and soul

 

Day fourteen and a choice to make

Two bowls of rice or equivalent

 

Day fifteen and although now reluctant

Its pizza, fish and chips, anything from the menu

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Day sixteen although it’s a battle

Three good meals that’s for one single day normality

 

Day seventeen and although the emaciated body has had enough

The exponential diet requires eating normally and then again

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Day nineteen, the hard but penultimate day

Munch steadily and then tomorrow the promised land

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Day twenty, the diet ends, no need to order from the menu

The dieter can order the entire menu celebrate, Eldorado

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©LawRouge

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