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Friday, November 27, 2015

Is she beautiful now?

Hello, everyone!
So yesterday I attended a literary award ceremony, because I placed Highly Commended on my poetry division! Mom has told me that a lot of people want to read the poem so here it is:

She's a little girl
It's summer and
Her hair is long and tangled
Her cheeks are strawberry red
Her eyes sparkling
A smile dimpling her face
She looks up to her mother
A figure of
Beauty
Power
Sophistication
And says
"I want to be just like you!"

Is she beautiful now?

She's a teenager
Young
Alive
The smart one
The social one
The fashionable one
She sits with her friends at their
Favorite
Pizza parlor
And says
"I'll have a salad, please"
Even as she looks
Longingly
At the melted cheese and pepperoni in front of her

Is she beautiful now?

She's out of school
Sizing up her competition
Applying for jobs
And getting
No
Response
She threads
And waxes
All the hairs off her body
Applies all the makeup in the world
But even though you can't see it
It's still there
Her skin is red
Is angry

Is she beautiful now?

She tries some more
Finally
Finally
She finds a company that wants her
A weak smile from her lips
Doesn't reach her eyes
She's tired
Hungry
Her face pale against the
Dark makeup around her eyes

Is she beautiful now?

The first thing they say
When she walks in
Is
"Take off your shirt"
"Take off your bra"
Take off
Your
Dignity
But she can't say no
She needs this job
She peels
The shirt
Off

Is she beautiful now?

She is at a dinner party
Toasting her success
And then retreating to the bathroom
Back arched
She sits on the ground
And vomits
Her mascara streaming over her face
Because she has to
She has to
She has to…

Is she beautiful now?

She is called to the runway
The last one to walk
She's glittering
Fake sparkles
Plastered to her body
She steps
Onto the stage
The world tilts
Her ankle twists
She falls
And doesn't get back up

Is she beautiful now?

She is in the hospital
The makeup washed away
Her face gaunt
Purple circles under her eyes
Her ribs stick out against her skin
The doctors say
"You're malnourished"
Her employer says
"You're fired"
And she thinks
She wonders

Will she be beautiful again?

I'm a published author now! YAY!

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