dancing lace,
covers your body like
silk-spun spiderwebs
suffocating their prey.
turn your lips the color of
someone's blood
use tantied paint
to hide the black and blues.
render your doll-eyes blank and unseeing
if only your body was Barbie too.
buy honey-gold skin,
for the small price of your life.
fill your veins with plastic,
shoot up botox like heroin.
measure your waist.
curse the extra inches,
cleave them off like play-doh.
deny age,
for you must always look
twenty-one.
Do what you must
(everything)
to look beautiful.
