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Female

April 3, 2012
By cmac6494 GOLD, Middleburgh, New York
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Every little word.
Every little pound.
Does this make me look fat?
Piling my face with make-up.
Hiding my true self.
Am I pretty now?
He wants everything from me.
But what I have to give?
Motherhood expected, lonely wife rejected…
soon he’ll be a free male.

© Marina S., Vineyard Haven, MA

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The assignment was to write a poem in the of mindset of the opposite sex.
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