16 November 2004

spider woman

I used to despise people's overstressing the importance of appearance
until I tasted the sweetness and bitterness of this value.
Was it good or bad, you asked me?
I don't know, i replied.
The war of getting perfection through
dieting and starving and sacrificing
with so-called free will
is going on.
But you pretend to consent to your plumpness and chubby
round body, and promise me that
you won't get to be absorbed into your shell.
The words, yet the words that have torn your body apart
keep lingering around here
on and on and on and on and on