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long
long
ago
a young girl
called brigitte bardot
was a celebrity icon
she was a pinup for many teenage high school girls
with determination somehow i managed to fool myself that i could look like this
helas it was not meant to be even with all my effort so i accepted the fact that i would never be a femme fatale francaise
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WHIM
however
on a whim
i bought a convertible
just like hers
now i have to work out
how to pay for it
Smiles. I never even managed to fool myself. I grew up with bad hair and freckles and low expectations. This poem made me smile. Still smiling.
ReplyDeleteCinema loves to build its effigies of ideal doesn't it. Who can measure up? What marketing counts on!
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