Narcissus In The Age Of Plastic

Beauty is skin deep

Layers of paint and plastic

Daubed with unsteady hands

Glance in the mirror

see the full bee-sting lips pout

and fake eye lashes

the tattooed eyebrows

filler in the crows-feet cracks

tell-tale nip and tuck

Nemesis smiles and

Avenges fading Echoes

Of a youth gone wild

When you are old...

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