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Mirrors
Francesca Simonelli

Apprenticed by other wandering beauties
Roaming the desert of unworthiness and despair.
Programed into a twisted and depraved
Version of myself
Funhouse of mirrors
Reflecting distortion
Pasty with dissociation
The dew of my flower
Dried up and replaced with artifice.
Constrained
Fated rebel
Objectified
Imposed upon

Insidiously programed by sex fantasies on T.V.
Sold into bondage
I now breathe myself back into being.
I belong to me!
Resting beneath the milky breasts of my past
Giving me new life
And rejuvenation.
Bonding brings healing
And I….
Although in many pieces
Remain whole.

Jessica K Ballantyne
Ego Lens
Graphite, spraypaint and wax pencil
on paper
59.4 x 84.1cm