Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

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 April 22, 2009 at 8:51 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 April 21, 2009 at 1:37 AM mmm ... yes sir, you explode into pop culture with pure genius ... i love it.

Sharon Winter April 20, 2009 at 6:15 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 April 20, 2009 at 4:18 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 April 19, 2009 at 1:45 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;-)