• Poetry
• cholesterol
• obesity

and exercise more.

this is what I advise my patients

when their good cholesterol is low

triglycerides high.

I use a letter

a thin piece of paper light on words

which makes for quite a lean envelope

mostly bones really.

most patients swim past.

and yet a few always take the bait

ending up in front of crumbled ice

and prices per pound.

dressed in workout clothes

they ask the man in the plastic smock

for a pound of fatty fish—salmon

a piece freshly caught.