Day 96

This is a different  style for me. I sort of envision this as a spoken word piece. Maybe. 


This Poem Will Make You Younger
(and thinner, and prettier)

You see it when you walk down the street
You see it when you turn on the TV
When you watch a movie
When you read a book
A magazine
A newspaper
It's constant
It's everywhere
Even in the places that claim to be against it
Those women's magazines for the "mature" woman
The self-confident woman
The glamorous woman
It's even there

Youth.
Beauty.
Thin.

Look your best
Young at any age
What does 40 look like
50 is the new 30
Reduce your pores
Burn fat
Increase your metabolism
Remove hair Pain free
Thicker, healthier, shinier hair
What to wear when you're 60
What not to wear when you're 60
Lose 10 pounds in 10 days
10% more plumping action

My god. I need to change EVERYTHING about me.

There is no escaping the barage
We are creating a population of hairless, young, stylish, perfect, slim women.
(and maybe smart, funny & talented. but only just little)
Oh wait. Did I say women?
I meant girls.
We are becoming hairless, young, stylish, perfect, slim GIRLS.
When all the hair is removed
And the pores diminished
And the skin glowing
And the weight lost
And the lips plumped
We have been transformed into little girls.
Anything less (or more, as it were) is unacceptable and simply unattractive

What's a woman to do who thanks the universe every day she's blonde?
Because if it were brown, the world could see that the amount of hair on her body would be akin to an orangutan?
When that hair grows likes weeds on Miracle Gro after a long spring rain even the instant after it's waxed, shaved, Naired, plucked, lasered?
What's a woman to do who enjoys food and sleeps way too late that even the possibility of just a good stretch in the morning becomes completely unattainable?
What's a woman to do who is not 18 anymore?
Who has a few wrinkles and a couple of grey hairs?
Does she fight the years, deny her age, try to be 18 again?

Youth.
Beauty.
Thin.

We are all trying to be so young,
We forget how old we really are and
What that means, what that represents
What we've done to get here
And that just getting here should be satisfaction enough.
But it isn't.

Stay young
Look young
Feel young
Be young

It's no wonder men can't keep heir hand off of little girls.