Gratitude

Thanks for these gray hairs

Thanks for these weird discolored spots

(liver marks?)

Thanks for my thunder thighs—

They help me to climb the stairs

Thanks for wind in my pipes

(to climb the stairs)

Thanks that I can sing

Thanks that I sing badly

Thanks for stretch marks

Thanks for a great big ass

Thanks for the gaps in my teeth

because without these teeth I would never be able to

Eat Little Debbie Nutty Bars, Hot Tamale candy, and

those addictive restaurant-style tortilla chips.

Thanks for the flab under my arms—

they’re like little bat wings!

Thanks that I’m not dead.

Thanks for one more day

to dance naked.