How's that painted face treating you?

Written at a bus stop.

How many hours did it take you to reach that level of perfection?  Brain cells fried and mutilated for the sake of curling, straightening, and ratting.  Cancer cells rear their ugly faces after winter months spent on tanning beds.  The price for superficial attraction is an eternity.  Is there a special place in hell for you?  Has Dante marked it out?

Cigarettes take the place of calories.  That pesky lettuce leaf you were forced to eat will get its due in a moment spent on the bathroom floor.  A thousand dollars in MAC product will find you happiness in a quick lay in that cheap motel bed.  Buy your body to sell it again.

Oh, my dear, your fashionista attitude is what enslaves you.

We're all grown-ups here now.  No pill is going to save your life.  You're too old to blame the mistakes you've made on the boys that you let use you.  Stop spreading your legs to find eternal glory.  All of Troy was not worth the scars left on your name.

Oh, little girl, settle down, you know it's all true.

The lust of lies, sex, and the delusion of a fast journey to happiness...it's all so pretty, you could wear it on your sleeve.  Darling, the orgasm fades.  The eyeliner smudges.  The nail polish chips.  Tomorrow threatens to become today.  The realisation that the world was never yours, but that you became a slave to it.

Stop turning to me to save your soul.

Your soul is yours to save.

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