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Rouge

at right angles to beauty,

geometry's not my friend,

full reservoirs of make-up

my proportions won't mend

 

other girls seem so pretty

my torso's a basket case

lobster nose, carrot hair,

mirrors crack at my face

 

I dream of drastic surgery

features lissom and new

Romeos on my doorstep

aftershaves in a queue

 

each day flushed torture

in a self-consc...

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The Look Of You In Love

if beauty is the keystone of women

from Cleopatra to Helen of Troy

you beat them into a cocked hat

the way yours generates such joy

 

its just a miracle of modern science

how every feature fits hand in glove

like rainbows and stars combined

in that ineffable look of you in love

 

you were always out in the front rank

from those early days of teenage bloom

but wh...

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