What beautiful eyes you have.<\/p>\n
Look how gorgeous you are.<\/p>\n Do you have a boyfriend?<\/p>\n Oh, you\u2019ll be a heartbreaker.<\/p>\n Little girl grew up surrounded by praise,<\/p>\n Words that kept her warm, even on rainy days.<\/p>\n Looking in the mirror, she saw what they did,<\/p>\n A beautiful girl, like you\u2019d see in a vid.<\/p>\n Nothing was lacking, her face was complete,<\/p>\n But because of her past, she viewed it as fresh meat.<\/p>\n You see, their words never taught her anything at all,<\/p>\n So walking the streets, she smiled at the cat calls.<\/p>\n She always kept a few boys around for playthings,<\/p>\n Dispensable they were, but her smile made them feel like kings.<\/p>\n She knew how to play them to get what she wanted,<\/p>\n And her fleeting affections made them feel taunted.<\/p>\n But they knew a small piece was as much as they\u2019d get,<\/p>\n And if they complained, she\u2019d move on to the next pet.<\/p>\n In this way, the world taught her what beauty really meant:<\/p>\n Not what\u2019s on the inside, but how many hearts she could dent.<\/p>\n The boys she collected were how she measured her worth,<\/p>\n But little did she realize the impact of her mirth.<\/p>\n She tossed aside their feelings in her pursuit to boast,<\/p>\n And all the while no one realized that it was she who hurt the most.<\/p>\n She was a slut and a cunt, a bitch and a whore,<\/p>\n But it was only because she had been taught to always seek more.<\/p>\n The day will soon come when she is old and gray,<\/p>\n <\/a>And when the moon rises, she\u2019ll have a price to pay.<\/p>\n No more will she play the field in the way she once could,<\/p>\n And her vicious cling to the past will be misunderstood.<\/p>\n She won\u2019t know how to gauge the value of her person,<\/p>\n And she\u2019ll realize she played a game she couldn\u2019t have won.<\/p>\n To teach a woman that her value depends upon others,<\/p>\n Was not the original intent of our mothers.<\/p>\n But through our words and our actions that\u2019s what we dispense,<\/p>\n So for a woman, this message becomes the most common of sense.<\/p>\n To understand our dilemma, we have to look at our roots,<\/p>\n And realize that women have long lived under men\u2019s boots.<\/p>\n Woman was not created to live in the shadow of man,<\/p>\n But to shine in her own light, the yin to his yang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What beautiful eyes you have. Look how gorgeous you are. Do you have a boyfriend? Oh, you\u2019ll be a heartbreaker. Little girl grew up surrounded by praise, Words that kept her warm, even on rainy days. Looking in the mirror, she saw what they did, A beautiful girl, like you\u2019d see in a vid. Nothing … Continue reading Price of Beauty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6874],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6874"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 10:08:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}