Surreal

“i wonder how many women
are painting themselves into movie girls
while they sleep
angling their faces alien
to themselves, an unnecessary surrender
to things that kill them,
to things that are not real

I tell myself in the mirror,
applying the second coat of mascara:
these things are not real”
― Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across  (2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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