Fashion (9/21/14)

Fashion is a tale told by an idiot,

full of gowns and hunger, signifying

double standards,

manipulation,

self-objectification,

unhealthy perversion,

fake ease and fake love,

dishonesty with self and others,

body dysphoria,

eating disorders,

lust for money,

and the one drop of perfume

slept in by a fictitious French starlet

in the movie ‘La Dolce Vita.’

It is still sold as sexy.

But genuineness, which does not require funds,

comes without money-

with greater cost, and greater effort.

With greater joy, and greater pleasure.

Authenticity is sexy.

I don’t even know what fashion is, in a word,

but it signifies more about human longing , and misery,

and the thousand damaging ways

in which people try to change themselves every day,

for the wrong reasons,

than the expensive perfume

that some spray so easily.

September 21, 2014