If you are a woman, you know
it doesn’t take much to fix yourself up.
Make-up to hide your lines, define
eyelashes, cheekbones and lips, tips
you learnt from your mother or friend , in the end
a little collagen here, a tummy tuck there
a couple of curlers in your hair
is all it takes to fix your face, eliminate all trace
of suffering and joy and pain, maintain
the image of you intact, pristine. In fact
all it takes is just some paint and glue,
just a few stitches to restore you
to factory condition:
virgin pure, demure
all fixed up – unbroken.
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