with Tom Daley on the cover.
“The Body Issue.”
I’ve already looked
atAttitude’s website on my phone,
but when Mum hands me
the physical copy,
I feel like she’s
giving me her blessing.
Inside the magazine,
the advice is to accept
and love your body,
no matter how you look.
I don’t think about
my skinny physique often
but here I can’t help
myself.
I don’t know where to
look with all the nearly
naked men’s bodies,
biceps, torsos, tiny
Speedos.
I think about my pink
Speedos. I packed them
secretly—maybe I could
come back to the beach in them later,
join all the men who know
who they are and don’t mind
wearing tiny Speedos.
Mum looks me up and
down from her sunbed
