Knit Picking
Zits!
Pus problems ... oozing wipe love,
has got them innocent bite fangs showing
That baby drac queen moon face turning
into a teenage mutant turtledove
Cold cream cyber hits
Another three-day seclusion ...
chained to a marred model illusion
Hip adolescent Wonder Woman
changed into a square Lois —
closing the fast lane to popularity
Matinee crash dream ten-dollar scraping
for a heart wreck, no-date solution
Beauty tips blown to bits
Anger eruption,
lava tears flowing profusely
Cooled by sisterly advice:
“Don’t pick at it, no ...
just leave it alone, let it go”
Lonely growth spurts
stunts a lot of
aisle-walking linked elbows
A patient sitter keep their wits
Lost weekend,
wigging out ... undone
by an epidermal shut-in send
Death-of-the-party news
was delivered by
best black widow friends
Prickly pimple concerns —
premature social demise
do a solitude burn
in an empty plastic jar urn
Fashionable facial fits
Wrinkles in time —
appearance issues so juvenile ... hormonal crisis,
minor disaster averted
Upon mirror reflection,
ticking vanity
gave self-esteem a facelift,
that was in necessary
ego sore rub need
Fear obit ghosted
Halloween masks
and brown paper bags
Sour tongue wags
and mean emoji hash tags
Mall sighting scary,
peer mocking wary
Post a Photoshop pic
in the Facebook dairy
Carnival freak show weird distortion,
deemed by pride
as a public health enemy
Mono rumor was the fake text portion;
with a closet confide,
isolation was the safest entry
Squeezed happiness ain’t legit
Lessons learned in youth
will age properly ...
if knit picked by the truth
Ugly self-image
will fade compassionately,
given clear rite-of-passage proof
A pretty duckling gathering pearl thoughts,
spreading swan wings
And gently dispersing
every shed tear that be hideous skin wrought
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