[net.poems] makeup

alan@allegra.UUCP (The Flaming Poet) (08/14/84)

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she's a
plastic woman

she doesn't look
like a woman

she looks
pale and thin
anorexic

no round,
shapely curves

she has blue eyelids
and rosy lips
and gobs of glop
on her cheeks.

she doesn't smell
or taste
like a woman

she smells like
antiperspirant
and perfume

she tastes like
mouthwash
and feminine deodorant.

she doesn't feel
like a woman

she feels rough
where the stubble lies
under her arms
and on her legs.

she's a
plastic woman

not much
of a woman
at all.