GETTING OVER IT
 

i just had a baby-

she is

20.

so that's why i am

still

bloated

botoxed

overfed

under tummy

tucked

and

nicorette

gummed.

there is

a lot

of pressure

holding

on

to

afterbirth. 
 
 
 

Eva Kilgore is a writer for the Orange County Register by day and a poet by night. Her most recent poems have been published in the Blue Jew Review, and Nefarious Ballerina. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from Boston University, but don't hold that against her.