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The Headless Woman
September 18, 2021
Today’s women are too costly by far;
with her empty head comes
her cakey makeup,
her greasy hair,
her monster mouth,
(quick to shut up,
back in my day)
her piercing eyes
(they see too much,
they say too much).
Her body provides
what her pompous head cannot:
Ratings, money,
Clicks, money,
Views, money,
Money, money…
Off with her head.
© Mariah F., Bowling Green, Kentucky
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This poem references the "headless woman" phenomenon used in movie posters. When film-makers use a model's face, they must pay the model more. Due to this, you often see movie posters of women lacking a head, which is dubbed "The Headless Woman." This sacrafice is made extremely liberally towards female models, but movie posters (even for the same movie) will often include a man's entire body/face.
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