Make Me Pretty Handsome Beautiful

Dear Cartoonist, make my lips full and my cheekbones arrogant. Turn my eyes into “attention grabbers.” I want my body to be described as perfect symmetry. Draw me a cartoon in which my character is desirable and such a presence that all others in the room are destroyed. Make me beautiful, no one else, in fact, take the other end of the pencil and make all of the competition go away. What’s that? You work with pens?!! Then drown those pages of other beautiful people in gasoline, stuff them down my throat and give me a match. Watch beauty burn inside of me and listen to others as they marvel at the hot beauty that seeps through my pores. Make my beauty a MONSTER and let me live within those pages because my reality is consumed by imperfections and in my society that is unacceptable. Dear cartoonist, make me pretty handsome beautiful.