Irwin Flesher is the poet laureate of fat. These clever diet poems are fun to read a full of clever insights.

In an age when most diet books and psychological self-help manuals tell us, it's not our fault Irwin Fleshers diet poems hearken to a different time when fat did not reside in the Genes but in the Jeans. Flesher's clever puns and insightful observations of human diet behavior even help close the gap between the mouth and the chocolate cake. They stick with you.