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wallpaper women are ripped down in single sheets, replaced by prettier ones with more labyrinthine markings and colours that shine, but even then, a picture is placed overtop, in a fine gold frame and a fibre canvas with artwork drawn by feeble hands wallpaper women, are women. they are you and i. we are bystanders, eager to scream out, but a single hand covers our mouths like a veneer. we are to blend in, we are to not speak, unless we are asking, “how may i take your order?” we are a service, a factory, we keep the world going. wallpaper women are artwork, art that is not noticed by them, who continue to believe they are mere pieces of decoration, something to make the walls pretty. if we are artwork, why are we covered with frames and photos and decoration? wallpaper women are people. we are nurturers by nature, lovers through hatred. and so many refuse to see the storm above the soft clouds. wallpaper women are told to blend in. but we are ripped down like pages out of a book, crumpled up and thrown into nothing. if you value the story so much, why do you keep taking pages out? wallpaper women are not the future, they are the past. women are the future. women. women. women,             need to be heard. women need to say “i am here too” because we are not just wallpaper, we are beautiful ****** artwork that deserves to be seen by every         ******                     one
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 11:10 PM UTC
Wallpaper Women
wallpaper women are ripped down in single sheets, replaced by prettier ones with more labyrinthine markings and colours that shine, but even then, a picture is placed overtop, in a fine gold frame and a fibre canvas with artwork drawn by feeble hands wallpaper women, are women. they are you and i. we are bystanders, eager to scream out, but a single hand covers our mouths like a veneer. we are to blend in, we are to not speak, unless we are asking, “how may i take your order?” we are a service, a factory, we keep the world going. wallpaper women are artwork, art that is not noticed by them, who continue to believe they are mere pieces of decoration, something to make the walls pretty. if we are artwork, why are we covered with frames and photos and decoration? wallpaper women are people. we are nurturers by nature, lovers through hatred. and so many refuse to see the storm above the soft clouds. wallpaper women are told to blend in. but we are ripped down like pages out of a book, crumpled up and thrown into nothing. if you value the story so much, why do you keep taking pages out? wallpaper women are not the future, they are the past. women are the future. women. women. women,             need to be heard. women need to say “i am here too” because we are not just wallpaper, we are beautiful ****** artwork that deserves to be seen by every         ******                     one
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 11:10 PM UTC
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