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Open Poetry #31

Mannequins in Miami

Adonis Cross
Junior Member

since 2003-04-07

Posts 46
Miami, FL, USA

0 posted 2004-04-12 05:14 PM

They're models even more than models now:
They stand around with nipples pointed out
Through fabric. They're accomplished at the pout,
The vacant stare, the finely penciled brow.
A normal, healthy girl is like a cow
Compared to one, and surely seeds of doubt
Will grow within her mind. She'll go without
Her lunch, afraid of looking like a sow.

She'll idolize the waifish shape they're in.
To her, they're like a perfect rose's stem,
So she'll become a tightened length of string.
But even looking like a mannequin,
She'll have to face the fact she's not like them,
Since plastic people never feel a thing.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2004-04-12 05:17 PM

"She'll have to face the fact she's not like them,
Since plastic people never feel a thing."

loved the ending...

M

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

2 posted 2004-04-12 05:30 PM

Enjoyed AC..

Since plastic people never feel a thing.

A great ending.

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Sadelite
Member Elite

since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

3 posted 2004-04-12 06:42 PM

enjoyed your poetic glimpse

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

4 posted 2004-04-12 07:34 PM

very well thought out and written....

jwesley

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-04-13 03:30 AM

good message

Toerag
Member Ascendant

since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

6 posted 2004-04-13 07:33 AM

Now this is very thought provoking and well done.....I used to write about all the girls in Balladeer's life too...but he quit replying.....this is superb

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2004-04-13 07:57 PM

We have them in Hawaii too...at all the finer stores...James

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