KarMel
Scholarship 2007
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“Artificial” By Amber-Marie
Bengoc |
Desciption of Submission: A poem contrasting the narrator (a tomboyish sort of
lesbian) to the pretty "straight" girl. We all hide. Examining the layers
each hide behind.
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Artificial skin, Artificial eyes, Sometimes artificial
claws. I am a creature of
falsehood. Black wildness shorn and
restrained Though as the day wears on Small strands escape - Her Flowing silk stays smooth Be it free or tamed. And while real fleshy orbs Look either above or
behind Metal and glass They cannot meet hers Even when they hide too Behind the glass. My two deadened coal lumps Cannot meet twin onyx
cabochon. Lips, a tight line hiding
off-white fangs A closed mouth smile -
Sharp Contrast to her gleaming
pristine Presidential Smile. The plain face a careless
eye mistakes for a pretty boy's Abomination beside her
practical applied Beauty. Her coat and mine are both
black. Her carrying maturing
elegance Mine marking me more the
knave Hers coving feminine
garments Mine accenting a male
t-shirt. All of this covering all
of us As we consciously keep our
eyes on our middles Willing them not to grow. There are my manly cargo
pants And her short skirt Hiding my scarred
once-powerful legs, Revealing her shapely
ones. I stomp or silently
shuffle In artificial hooves of
rounded functionality. She struts or smoothly
slides With feet framed in
pointed sexuality Artificial skin and
Artificial senses Her of me Me of her Her of her Me of her As we hide in our
artificial selves No one is surprised when I
find a pretty face And play the rogue as I smirk and Wink Touch and flirt. And everyone expects a
smile on her pretty face As she plays social, But
she Touches and smirks. In response I flirt and
wink. Artificial fun in our
artificial flavors. She ignores reality. I admit to it. Yet as the distance grows
all too rea My false affection passes
from me But her false smile and
mirrored eyes remain. Like the artificial skins
we hide within. |