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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	01 avril 2002
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554902378
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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the fat kid
Copyright Paul Vermeersch, 2002
Published by ECW PRESS 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4E 1E2
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process - electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise - without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW PRESS.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Vermeersch, Paul The fat kid: poems
ISBN 1-55022-515-4
1 Title.
PS8593.E74F38 2002 C811'.6 C2001-904072-5 PR9199.4.V475F38 2002
Editor: Michael Holmes, a misFit book Cover and Text design: Tania Craan Typesetting: Mary Bowness Printing: AGMV MARQUIS Author photo: Bruce MacNeil Front cover photo: Photonica
This book is set in Garamond and Mecurius
The publication of The Fat Kid has been generously supported by the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program.
DISTRIBUTION
CANADA: General Distribution Services, 325 Humber College Blvd., Toronto, ON M9W 7C3
PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA
the fat kid
PAUL VERMEERSCH
Contents
Prologue
Birth of a Fat Kid
Nativity with Pound Cake
Better, Stronger, Faster
Left-handed Till He Was Five
Campbell s Soup
Come See What s on Sale Now at Sears
A Fat Kid Watches a Snake Eat a Toad at Camp Ololondo
Calvin Was Curly
Derek Mitchell
Kryptonite Safety Pin
Obsession For Men
Wonder
A Four-eyed Pig
Predestination
Calvin Little and the City of Boys
Cannonball
The Purple Nurple
Golden
They Speak of Their Little Brother
The Best a Man Can Get
Occasion to Be Photographed
Sick (A Sermon)
Teenage Phoenix
Alone in the Bathroom He Removed His Shirt
A Girl s Disease
The Ultimate Weight-loss Program
A Bad Dream of Wings
Camp Get-A-Life Activity Schedule
Don t Cry, Annabelle
Weightless
Acknowledgements
Nobody loves a fat man. - Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, 1907
for Calvin Klein
An annual survey of Canada s health care system, published in May, 2001, showed that 29 per cent of boys and 23 per cent of girls were overweight in 1996, a 14 per cent increase in boys and a 9 per cent increase in girls since 1984.
- REUTERS

Author s Note
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between characters and events in this book and those in real life wouldn t make me feel any better.
The grass ll be greener when pigs learn to fly, since none of the pigs ll come trampling by, and the dirt ll be richer, the rain ll be thicker, and the pigs ll be happier n pigs in shit gliding from barn roof to slop trough to sty.
O the world will be better (and a shitload wetter, if you consider the weather) when pigs learn to fly.
Birth of a Fat Kid
Something s gone wrong in the suburbs.
In backyards the June bugs
are going up in flames,
and a block away it s raining, but it isn t raining here.
Something is happening.
Sheet lightning in the south -
across the flatland of lawns and parking lots
the tall steel cylinders and concrete poles hum
a single note of million-watt juice
through the haywire crisscross of fat black cables
strung over Mississauga.
It comes whirring though the green transformer
into the yard.
You can feel it in your feet. The sign says
Do Not Touch - It s
dangerous.
Relax, there s beer
in the fridge, neighbours on lawn chairs.
There s nothing much to do. It s getting dark,
no one s going anywhere.
Relax.
Each street, each crescent - like the city itself -
no reason to come here unless you come home to it.
A woman

pulls her sweatshirt to her knees, calls her girls in
from the street.
She s pregnant again.
Can they afford this? He s coming.
He will arrive when it s cold, the air will sting
fingers and ears, a mouth
to feed, an ass to wipe, born the morning
of the Santa Claus parade, fat and jolly, a change
of plans, and the whole day ruined
for the girls.

She feels a kick and it weighs on her.
He s already shifting his weight; maybe
he s already disappointed about it.
There will be lights.
There will be painful insults, lightning
will strike the beach, and in the morning,
a lump of glass: 6 pounds, 11 ounces.
There will be strawberry shortcake, television shows,
tight-fitting casual slacks. . . .
There will be everything he will know in his life.
There will be everything there is to know
about a boy.

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