raspberry alice

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i am forever immortalized as alice with raspberry lips on a french girl’s blog
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and i wonder
am i really
what i say
how i look or
how i am perceived?
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what if my words are just strings of awkward and whimsical weaved together as poetry…or nothing?
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who is this alice?
it just sounds so fantastical
welcome to the greatest show on earth!
come see the brave, the rockstar-ish,
the very plastic
alice with raspberry lips!
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what if i am never her
and what if i am so much more
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stop. no more plastic. return to earth & sticks & shells
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i am woman
i am mind and body and soul
yes, weathered by life
& coiled too tightly
but i am real
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i don’t need to be defined by anything. not skills or looks. not a poem or a baby. i am enough just as i am. right now
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(C) Art & Photographs, MJ Calitz, 2010