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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Body Box</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is the body slim<br>the nymph<br>who's shown to us everyday<br>smiling cover girl<br>wife and mother-debutante<br>supple woman hood<br>and many place themselves<br>beside her life-sized cut<br>to see if there is a body fit<br>and then make-up<br>and plastic surgery<br>flow from the credit cards<br>vision seen in vanity mirrors<br>yet inside<br>no one knows<br>that she wonders<br>if that outward glow<br>is enough<br>to assuage her inward doubts; <br>'Am I a person<br>or just this cut-out<br>that people, especially men<br>glance at<br>flirt with<br>even desire on sight; <br>and I<br>take these glances as my birthright<br>yet why do I, nonethess, remain insecure? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are no wars like the Beauty Wars<br>where every pound, line and bulge<br>is surveyed each day, acessed and graded, <br>even by people that don't even know you<br>yet feel free to inspect like this<br>reflecting back to me<br>'I do or I don't like this'<br>like the Facebook avatar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hungrily<br>and guiltily<br>I took the positive looks<br>feeling vindicated<br>for something<br>I never desired<br>until the day I made the change; <br>looked in the mirror<br>got dressed<br>and walked out make-up less<br>feeling utterly naked<br>noticing right away every non-glance<br>non look<br>feeling terrified<br>ugly even<br>inadequate<br>yet defiant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This I thought will be what it will be like aging<br>no longer beautiful, sexy or attractive<br>invisible<br>to all except those who share or have shared the same<br>experience.<br>But there were exceptions this make-up less day<br>women noticed-some of them could tell what I had done<br>and stared at me sideways, some thinking she looked odd<br>some thinking me brave, some even guessing that I was making a statement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But not the men. They didn't look therefore didn't know<br> me in my invisible self.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here I was on the street shaking my fist at the media parasites<br>who had made me afraid of facing life without the mask<br>I had to pay them to acquire-terror really<br>'Buy what I tell you to or you'll not have your 'happily ever after.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walked into the coffee shop and Bob said<br>Something about you is different-did you cut your hair? '<br>It was like that, all day. Men didn't get it but women did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe I thought I will start my own revolution, maybe where a sign<br>that says 'You can go make-up less.'<br>They would say I is a threat to the whole American economy, suppose it really caught on and billions would not be spent, the Macy's cosmetic counter would close.<br>Models would suddenly look plain.<br>And if it spread to plastic surgery as well<br>it could bring big noses back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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the nymph
who's shown to us everyday
smiling cover girl
wife and mother-debutante
supple woman hood
and many place themselves
beside her life-sized cut
to see if there is a body fit
and then make-up
and plastic surgery
flow fr..."></div>
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