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Strange Fruit

by Ian Whiteley

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Strange Fruit

 

“what is beautiful?”

asks Eliza

for she thinks

that she is not

because they tell her

she is not

 

“why are they hurtful?”

as if the outside

somehow sullies

what is inside

and insinuates the sour

to what is sweet

 

“why do they ridicule?”

the size the shape

the roughness of my skin

the growths

the fact my spine

Is out of...

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Monday 4th June 2018 12:36 pm

beauty in the eye of the beholder   body shaming metaphor   disability metaphor   fruit   ugly   vegetables

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