Given yourself a new image,

a new name,

doing it the wrong way.

you

let vanity creep into your mind.

allowed adverts to claim their territory,

warped and twisted,

a product of the new age

of modelling agencies and slimming creams.

you were

so much more than that

hollowed out,

reeking of decay,

you

have lost your i.d.

somewhere on the p.i.e

when you were catching a ride in a Good Samitarian's car

slipped into a new identity

doesn't quite fit, m'dear

could have been

so much more

an animal lies dead on the road,

the victim of a hit-and-run.

--By Yue Lin, 'They Got You'

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