Friday, September 14, 2012

Silent Film Star

She is the night sky negative
with starry skin
                      and eyes
                                   the color of 
                          velvet                   midnight
She is a rude awakening
and says too much
                      even through
                                     her perpetual
                                                         silence
She wears expensive clothes
and cheap perfume
and doesn't eat
until she's                      going                       to                         faint
                 She stares 
                 even though it's rude
because she
                  doesn't realize
                                       they are there
                                                            She doesn't care
Somehow her lipstick
                stays on all day
but no one
                                      has ever seen
                                                                            her reapply        oh no
It's a shame she wasn't
a silent film star.
                                Everyone would have loved her then.
But not now.

They walk on the other side of the street and think about her dreadful beauty. 

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