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Porcelain white is painted polite. Grown-up to be perfect, and pretty in lace. Long shiny hair tied up with a bow. A beautiful pro at hiding her woe. Dressed to the nines with diamonds that shine, to blind those from seeing her broken design. Her body a shrine all knotted with twine. Privileged, and coddled. Loved, and swaddled. Prepped for ascension, despite the fine lines that grow in her spine. Cracks in the porcelain, rigid and sly, grow bigger with rigour as time flies by. One more bawl and she’ll break above all. I am a china doll, would you like to see me fall?
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Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 6:51 PM UTC
China Doll
Porcelain white is painted polite. Grown-up to be perfect, and pretty in lace. Long shiny hair tied up with a bow. A beautiful pro at hiding her woe. Dressed to the nines with diamonds that shine, to blind those from seeing her broken design. Her body a shrine all knotted with twine. Privileged, and coddled. Loved, and swaddled. Prepped for ascension, despite the fine lines that grow in her spine. Cracks in the porcelain, rigid and sly, grow bigger with rigour as time flies by. One more bawl and she’ll break above all. I am a china doll, would you like to see me fall?
Inspired by Lana Del Rey's song "Without You", as well as my own 'snowplow' parents.
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19/F/Toronto
Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 6:51 PM UTC
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