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Fake perfection
August 18, 2013
Strawberry ice cream, Auroras.
She’s paper-cut, but far from hurt.
She lives a masquerade party, in her head.
So full of life, yet so far from reality.
Vivacious and expressive. Lively and lovely.
So caught up in herself.
Spunky, spontaneous, a live wire.
Only she knows how many times she rehearses what she says.
Perfection uncaptured, unreal, untrue.
Like neon, so digitalized.
Her paper heart, so far from feeling.
© Alisha N., Waxhaw, NC
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