looks

listening to: The Fall of Troy - Shhh! If You're Quiet I'll Show You a Dinosaur

fashion.
the concept of fashion is one of illusions.
it's an attempt to be fake, to look different than you really do.
clothes designed to shape the way you're viewed.
hide this, accentuate that.
"we aren't good enough as we are!
oh! and makeup!"
makeup, making up twelve year olds to look legal since too long
the name itself gives away the purpose.
make up your appearance. imagine it and create it.
because you don't look good on your own.
put on the face you never owned, the fake, the false,
the one you were never born to live in.

to be back in the garden...
unclothed, undisguised. only ourselves.
i wish it were so. no more illusions.



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that's what pushing carts in the rain brought to my mind today.
maybe a little harsh. maybe. ...