Contradictions
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Sasha Duschka, Grade 10
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Poetry
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2018
There once was a girl who wore lipstick,
They all thought her a total ditz.
The last interview she’d none,
Heckled there too! They’d just begun-
You whore! You skank! You sheet working slut!
Ugh, I give up! You’re all insufferable!
Needy hypocrites, willing and able.
With lipstick I’m easy,
With none I’m lazy,
You’re too hard to please, I’d rather not enable.
When I step down, the next comes forward, tiptoes,
On heels, pretty and ready to be broken,
About to be jeered, but aren’t we all?
What hope is there, but the reader?