T H I N

T h I n Thin girl What are they selling you In those multi-flavored packets Boxes Of completely free fat Cereals The ideal Skinny girl Pre-fashioned femininity Of skin and bone Their last resort of your motherhoods Guilt of your womb Un-sunned Suntan makeup For the rest of the world “Hello” magazine Has no inkling of What you lost in those Shedding pounds Of fat Behind your beauty Now only skin deep Is all you want to be You fell for the diet And the lifeless tailor made dummies Of Gay dress makers Who dress you How they want to be So flat So t h I n So Skeleton Pretty And Anorexia Is a disease of the 21st century Everything about your woman-inity Turned into the wire proportions Of a coat hanger It’s your own fault Your dependence on makeup And push up Corsets history and false eye lashes To disguise who you are The drug of vanity Prescribed to Dictated to Addicted to And given to you So easily All those slick shinny fronts of “Girlie” Magazines Show you forever young And acceptably T h I n Support structures Of tint and dust Elastic accessories Hold up Tuck Cover up All the beauty Which defines your life A woman Defined in four alphabetical Words T h I n Will you be on a diet For the rest of your life ?

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Anna-Marie Docherty

Date: 4/22/2009 8:51:00 AM

Wow! Great muse in there, and lots to chew on!! Thanks for sharing and commenting my writes, kindest thoughts, Anna-Marie.

L'Nass Shango

Date: 4/21/2009 1:37:00 AM

mmm ... yes sir, you explode into pop culture with pure genius ... i love it.

Sharon Winter

Date: 4/20/2009 6:15:00 AM

If every man felt this way, our society would be different. There are more that do not feel this way than do. How sad. Then the competition starts between the girls at such a young age. Such an important statement Colin. Such an excellent write. Thank you. Love, Shar

Laurie Ginn

Date: 4/20/2009 4:18:00 AM

I rather think it's society's fault feeding its hate of female to our little girls. We are not good enough unless we are made up, starved and wearing the latest of fashions to be worthy of another's affections. So for centuries we have manipulated our bodies to form to anothers opinion of perfection doing everything from the chinese binding of feet, to removing ribs and now total starvation. It's much too easy to blame women for centuries of being told you are not enough.Deep breath so HI Col

Charmaine Chircop

Date: 4/19/2009 1:45:00 PM

this got my attention cos everytime i have some fun and eat some chocolates and sweets which are my special treat,i always end up increasing exercise,dieting and dieting ,yeah the media and all are changing us into robots-you re a great reminder here to learn to enjoy ourselves-wonderfully penned-charma;-)