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Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

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Ontario, CANADA

0 posted 2001-04-14 10:00 PM

Well Excuse Me For Being Me

Pardon me,
for eating a hamburger
instead of a Calista Flockhart salad
with low-fat dressing on the side,
so sorry to be unwilling to starve my soul
for this refusal to pledge my allegiance to the stairmaster,
how dare my curves sway in the air
as Hollywood screams that Kate Moss-anorexia is in,
yes, I know,
I'm undeserving of love
because I can smile at my reflection
because I dare not change for you,
how defiant of me to be the exception
to this size 2 obsession,
who do I think I am?...being a rebel with a cause
accepting and respecting myself,
for being at peace that I wear a woman's body
that there is no need for mardi-gras masks
or drawers full of eyeshadow and concealor deceit,
but,
you're right,
I sure do have some nerve
refusing to purchase that blonde box of hairdye,
refusing to milk my breasts of their worth with silicone sin,
how dare I be content...
proud to be a brunette,
oh, how selfish of me,
my sincere apologies for the inconveniece of dissapointment
that I do not fit the mold of a movie star goddess,
I should be so ashamed for resisting this phenomenon
where being human is simply not good enough,
but,
you're right...you always are,
I should be bowed with inferiority
that my heart is not bruised
with your curse

"hi, my name is Melissa
I'm a size 7
and I'm a natural woman"
for this,
I apologize

~*By Melissa Honeybee*~

Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

1 posted 2001-04-14 10:09 PM

You go girl!!!!

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

2 posted 2001-04-14 10:36 PM

Amen Sister Friend!

inot2B
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since 2000-09-18

Posts 2205
Arkansas

3 posted 2001-04-14 10:44 PM

You can be my woman spokesperson anytime.

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

4 posted 2001-04-14 11:03 PM

Thank you for reading this piece!

In your face Pamela and Kate hehehe

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-04-15 01:21 AM

no apologies needed. . . sing it loud!!!

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

6 posted 2001-04-15 01:25 AM

Good poem, but size seven? You can afford to rebel. Joyce

tracie66
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since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

7 posted 2001-04-15 01:30 AM

Yahoo for Lissa, good going hon.
Love ya talent

~HUGS~
from another not so perfect women and lovin it.
Tracie~

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe

Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06

Posts 3733
Michigan

8 posted 2001-04-15 08:14 AM

Perfect in poetry and in life Miss
Melissa...and Proud you should be...just
as I am proud of you...beautiful message
that should be sung from the roof tops!!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

9 posted 2001-04-15 08:29 AM

The other day I read that the average woman [note: over 30] is:

size 14
weight 144
5'6

Got a curve? Flaunt it!

WooHoo!

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 04-15-2001).]

Kit McCallum

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since 2000-04-30

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Ontario, Canada

10 posted 2001-04-15 08:52 AM

Absolutely no apologies necessary ... we are who we are, whomever that may be, and should be darn proud of it! Wonderful Melissa!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Chelsea~
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since 2001-02-09

Posts 260
Ontario, CANADA

11 posted 2001-04-15 07:48 PM

go missy go!

wow, this was strong
with that smart sarcasm
that I love about ya.
If only all women
could stand up
against society and
be proud of who they
are inside and out

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

12 posted 2001-04-15 08:02 PM

I was a size two once...but I think I was also aged two! I was also a blonde then too!
And here's a giggle for ya---I've two sisters, both gorgeous but complete opposites. One cannot go to the bathroom in her own home without applying make-up, and the other, well, suffice to say she was going to the store one day, where upon my cosmetology minded sister shrieked, "Are you going to the store like THAT???" and 'other sister replied, "Hey. I don't have to look at me!"

Thanks for the smile, tonite!

Kay
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since 2001-04-13

Posts 70

13 posted 2001-04-15 08:14 PM

I love it!!! BRAVO!!!

I'll take a double cheeseburger with ONIONS

Kay
Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow." ~James M. Barrie~

Balladeer

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14 posted 2001-04-15 11:00 PM

How dare you not be perfect, girl!
How dare you not be thin!
How dare you not look wonderful
In everything you're in?
How dare you not have measurements
That make you be divine?
And, last of all, the big one is...
How dare you not be mine!?!?!

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

15 posted 2001-04-15 11:29 PM

YES!!

I just let all my lil bouncy men do all the exercise. Cute poem, Melissa.

still d-i-s-c-o-n-n-e-c-t-e-d
I am bound by this, you see...to become Night's sole mistress, and I am jealous in my endeavours for his attention.

rosepetals25

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since 2000-05-31

Posts 3076
PA

16 posted 2001-04-15 11:59 PM

Melissa,

OMG I love this!!!! I am going to print it out and hang up at work for all women to see!!! lol I'm so glad I stopped in

Wonderful write.

TaraB

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

17 posted 2001-04-16 05:25 AM

Know what I do? When I see a woman with hollow cheeks eating a salad, I purposly ordrer something so delicious and go "mmmmm" a lot, so they get the idea life could be wonderful! I used to be anorexic for the sake of being accepted or something, and now, I eat like a horse and love every single calorie (I am still kinda little though), you tell 'em Melissa, and I wish to be in your picket line for any "label bashing " you do against ads with these waifs in them. GO GIRL

~*~ I write, therefore I am ~*~

Katherine Chandler
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
Florida, USA

18 posted 2001-04-16 11:34 PM

I'm so tired of men who only deal in slim, trim, petite, atheletic, lean.. yada yada yada cha cha!!! Loved your poem..

Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

19 posted 2001-04-17 02:39 AM

Hi Melissa,

As an artist, I consider the female form, skinny or overweight, to be as lovely as any sunset, or field of wildflowers. I think you've got a great attitude. Good work here.

Michael

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

20 posted 2001-04-21 08:25 AM

being a woman who practically lives on salads...... i thought this was really well said....

the american culture with its madison avenue image of the emaciated teen as the ideal body image can really screw up a person's head

believe me... i know

... but thanks for posting my photo

lol

(nice job)

Just A Woman
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since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

21 posted 2001-04-21 08:54 AM

Applauding!!!!!!!!!!! So VERY true! I find myself amazed to realize this is the first poem of this nature that I've read here. It should be said much more often. I applaud you, Melissa.
Am saving this one!

"I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one."

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