Life-size

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    Life-size

    I am not put together how I want to be

    I want to change

    Is it so strange in this society?

    Lift my breasts up

    Cut my neck out and patch it up real tight

    Make my thighs small and my butt big

    That is what’s popular, right?

    Make me skinny, make me younger

    Am I looking like my old self yet?

    I want to feel good, make me happy

    For what I have, what can I get?

    This is what I’ve always dreamed of

    I’m not scared of your small knife

    I’m the doll I used to play with

    But I’m living real life

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    Balladeer commented on Life-size

    05-20-2010

    "I’m the doll I used to play with"...wonderful line! it's a good poem with a good message...but from a 21 year old girl??? You want to look younger? Oh, to be 21 again! Nicely done, miss happiness..
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    Allegra

    05/21/2010

    If it's at all reflective of how I see myself, it's a very very exaggerated reflection. I did write this at work, which is an old folks home. Can we say inspiration? Thank you for your comment. You are one of the best humor poets I've read in a while.

    Balladeer

    05/21/2010

    Yes, we can definitely say inspiration. That's what makes for great poetry, putting oneself in a situation and writing about it. You do that very well...

    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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