Against Dieting - a love poem by Blake Morrison

A Yorkshire poet makes a patient, slightly exasperated, entirely heartfelt case against his partner's diet. He has read the books. He has jogged alongside her. He has eaten the 'cardboard' called crispbread. And now he wants to go on record: enough. In ten lines of warm domestic comedy, Morrison arrives at one of the simplest and most beautiful declarations. Just six words at the end that say everything love should say — I want not less but more of you.