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Dying to be Marilyns

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TheLunaLily

Published: Feb 3, 2011

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   Girls hang themselves
with nooses made of numbers
and eyes of airbrushed idols
with society's approval.

   They say,
{while choking on pages of Vogue magazine}
        "that beauty opens doors
         to worlds
         we never had the right to".

   They say,
         "you are beautiful when
          your body is thin".

   Sex sells,
and so they do.
Trading their souls
for another skin.

        "It's a better world
         for pretty women",

               in  nooses.

   Skeletons in dresses,
blinded inch-by-inch,
selling pounds of flesh
for the sins of their mirror twins,
dying to be Marilyns.

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