enjoy this writing from Christine Stoddard
in the free 6" x 9" 2017 PDF file chapbook: The Eating Game
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Boycott That Store
Christine Stoddard
Your wallet is yours alone
and your body is yours alone
and your wardrobe is yours alone
but your anger toward that store
is not yours alone.
No woman has that figure,
their mannequins the loosest interpretation
of the female form that walks this earth.
How is it that mannequins are so like zombies?
That fabric will not stretch to envelop your beauty.
It will pull and tug and shame what is yours.
Abandon its florescent lights for sunshine
and adorn yourself in fig leaves instead.
