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Elizabeth Schack
Grade 11
The Birch Wathen Lenox School
Teacher: Joseph Kreutziger
The Girl with the Caked Face
-Inspired by Robert Browning’s poem, “A Light Woman”
I.
Familiar faces all stand and cheer.
Nothing more the Carvel blue stains
Singing to my sixteenth year.
II.
Sliced a smile on my lips using mom’s Visa,
While I dabbed my cheeks with doilies,
Like one would do to get the grease off pizza.
III.
Feeling my life would be completely invalid.
(Being pressured on what to eat)
If my last meal was a salad.
IV.
Compulsively counting every multi-colored sprinkle.
The hands of the clock pinch my pupils,
Being reminded of all my new wrinkles.
V.
Where’s Peter Pan to come take me away?
The doorway to Wonderland?
My Hogwarts letter that never came?
VI.
Nerves being tickled by the stabs of pins.
Attending the masquerade.
Leaving behind my cellulite grins.
VII.
I’m sugarcoated fake.
OD’ed on artificial sweetener.
All the people crave is my ego baked.
VIII.
Staring at the royal iced flower on my plate.
With my butter cream simper,
Hiding my red velvet hate.
IX.
I’m not the only one who distracts with accessories.
Everyone has their jelly filled wounds
But the difference is I was just meant to be a memory.
XI.
No more hiding my seasoned fears.
Let the hot wax drip down my face,
Flaunt my fluorescent pink tears.
XII.
I’ve become the cake, with flesh shame.
About to be eaten away.
Knew I would be the one to blow out my own flame.
XIII.
Goodbye Upper East Side.
Remain glitter and diamonds.
I become a roach.
