Do you look
beautiful,
Do you look
beautifully,
or
Do you look
beauty
fully
in the face
and tell
it to
fuck
right
off?
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My beautiful wife hates
to have her picture taken.
What have you done
to my love?
My little girl wants to
be a ballerina, a fairy.
What will you do
to love?
So many girls
becoming
so many women.
What do you do
to love?
A Prayer Like Gravity
Mundus vult decipi
A Prayer Like Gravity 
JCC, wow, wow, wow. I love how you have caught the objectification, including that of what we women do to ourselves. We should tell those standards to fuck right off. I am reblogging this.
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You honor me Susan–
Thank you.
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My pleasure!
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And its funny, but I wrote the first half of this about twenty years ago. It has taken me this long, this life, to write the second half and find out what it’s about.
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Some things take that long. Well done, man.
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Thank you Susan–
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Reblogged this on Susan Daniels Poetry and commented:
John, one of my favorites of his, says something here so strongly, so simply.
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Love love LOVE.
Wow well done. So simple and yet very powerful.
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Thank you Audra–simple and powerful are good things to shoot for. I could not hope for more.
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Wonderful … love the beginning word play, and the beauty of the second part
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Thank you, John.
I am never certain about using profanity until I put it out there but in this case, I just felt that no other phrase would quite do the job. I hoped to temper that with the second part so I’m glad to hear your words.
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I think it worked, because it seemed a really natural thing to say … it wasn’t jarring, or unexpected, or out of place. Sometimes you can tell that profanity is thrown in for the shock value, but, in this case, it just seemed a natural part of the piece.
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Thank you John–I appreciate your close reading.
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wow!..this is great..got me thing for a long time!
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Thank you, Sweetest.
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Very strong. I know exactly how it feels to hate having a picture taken. I’m so there. So are many people I know.
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Thank you Alice. I’m pretty sure that includes practically every woman in the US.
Unfortunate.
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Very. 😦
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