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Reckless Girls

December 29, 2011
By SarahWaters SILVER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
SarahWaters SILVER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments

They tell you about
those reckless girls.
Those girls who, with
smudged eyeliner,
look glamorous
the morning after.

Those reckless girls,
when holding their hair back
is a high privilege
of sharing
another wild night.

Those reckless girls
strutting over
in leather boots
and chain bracelets to slap
their illegally older boyfriends

Those reckless girls
making you feel guilty
you don’t have the
willpower for anorexia,
the courage for cocaine.

Reckless girls
when therapy
is a plot device
and pushing people away
just brings them closer

Reckless girls
whose disasters
make them deep
and screwing up
makes for higher ratings

Off-screen,
Those reckless girls
are nothing like
all the wrecked girls
that I know.

Truth is,
they aren’t popping pills
Because they’re strong.
They aren’t passing out
Because they’re beautiful.


The author's comments:
I've seen so much glamorization of train-wreck girls in the media, and I wrote this poem because I wanted to show that being a drug addict, party girl, or having a mental disorder isn't beautiful at all.

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on Jan. 5 2012 at 5:52 pm
SarahWaters SILVER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments
Thank you both so much!

on Jan. 3 2012 at 10:04 am
BlondeAndProud PLATINUM, Corseaux, Other
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Favorite Quote:
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

I love this so much!!! you really get what pressures and stereotypes do to people, certainly people I know.... its beautiful well done :D

on Jan. 2 2012 at 4:04 pm
alexb42621 PLATINUM, Brecksville, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
"To err is human."

This is so good! The media has too great of a negative influence on our lives. Brittany Spears probably made millions off of the media portraying her drug addiction, when my friend would have lost their family and everything they had. Inequality is raging. So now I'm raging for Equality. Keep it up (: You have great courage