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i wish i was prettier.
by Meghan Helmichi do this a lot, you know.
push back to the corner and follow
the blondes with the long ringlets
and frigid blue eyes. the girls
that dance and wave around my head
with warm reminders of my mediocrity.
not ugly, mind you, but certainly not
beautiful. certainly not ideal
or head-turning and exciting.
even the exotic black hair is growing
out to intoxicatingly boring brown,
pulling out in strings from the roots.
stretched material over those flat
stomachs, arched backs of happiness.
i curl in on myself and play pretend
that the woman in the mirror isn't
really so bad. she hasn't been punished
for telling long-lived lies.
posters of glamorous women get pulled
out and taped stapled nailed over
mirrors within reach. if i can stare
at the eyes of a pistol, bathe in beauty
until it soaks up in raisin pores,
one morning i might wake up wanted. 11/07/2007 Posted on 11/07/2007
Copyright © 2024 Meghan Helmich
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Sigurdur Haraldsson on 11/08/07 at 02:17 PM This is evocative. Do you really feel that way or is this just your expression? Anyhoo, it made me think about what I once wanted for my girls, not to be too beautiful, cause that would not give them enough character. Most men like character but are caught and trapped by external fading beuty without any substance. |
| Posted by D. James McKee on 01/26/08 at 09:19 AM
By the fading of the sun, hidden in a jag of concrete, I saw a flower smile. Then, mistaking the yieldless stone for beauty, she folded in upon herself. Bitterly, I wept when I saw ... |
| Posted by Amy Wustrin on 07/17/08 at 10:11 PM "one morning i might wake up wanted."
damn, do i ever wish i wrote that. awesome, thank you for sharing this |
| Posted by Anastasia Selby on 09/05/08 at 08:58 PM "intoxicatingly boring brown." Great contradictions in this poem. I can relate to it, because everyone feels mediocre, there are such high images to appease. Ah, but those beautiful women are just as insecure as us...maybe even more so. Good job on this one. |
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