Modern Beauty prostituted for dollar sign
Cupid crucified on Valentine's Day
In the gaudy window display.
Beauty sold to technology
For the price of a few glossy magazines
For the price of television static
For the price of safe corporate cosmetics
In the name of peergroup glamour
In the name of fifteen seconds of fame
In the name of pretending to be happy on TV
Or pretending to be alive in the marketplace.
To sell and be sold, like shampoos, hairgloss,
Lipsticks, wonderbras, happiness marketed quickly in a soundbite.
Beauty denied in the glutonous laughter of models,
Beauty denied by white-toothed overperfection,
Beauty negated by Barbie Doll.
Beauty was never nailvarnish or expensive perfume,
Beauty was never the plastic lackey of money,
Beauty is not in the heart of the corporation.
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