PLASTIC

Your eyebrows enter heavy

announcing your spider eyes

but how long must your lashes be?

So thick I wonder

how do you see?

Your gleaming white Chiclets

smile outshines your yellowed whites

a caricature of beauty imagined perfection

bizarre apparitions.

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Christine Poythress

I was raised in the Deep South at a time when girls weren’t allowed to do squat —I rebelled.