I. My material part is a tenem...

I.

My material part is a tenement. I am told through others in housing worse than mine that restoration is unnecessary. They accuse me of exaggeration, of creative license, of fishing for compliments upon the state of my household It's different when you live here, I enumerate them. I have good reason to hold fast the lights in my hallways dim:

(1) I am five feet sum of two units and one half inches tall and weigh single in kind hundred and thirteen shut ups on the doctor's scale, individual hundred and nine in the mornings at abode I have never starved myself, not been bulimic, never used slimming tablets, laxatives, or diuretics, or