She screams pink
and gold
tasting the lipstick-tinted flavor of
freedom and plastic-held cosmetics
reveling
in the fact that she has been
set loose by makeup
unfettered by face cream and eye cream
eyes opened
and wild
and crinkled into a smile for the first time
triumphant
she knows how ironically her freedom was bought
for one hundred dollars
and how her first fancy dress
gave power to her words
Ah, the empowerment of artificiality. Brilliant exploration, lizzydragon.
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