Why do you Reflect me as a Hag?

mirror shows me a creature I do not recognize
I stare at the image
unclear who she is
or how she got into my body

I am young and svelte
this old woman is corpulent
my neck is svelte
this old woman has nasty neck wrinkles

why do you reflect me as a hag? I ask the mirror
the mirror laughs
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