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Standards

by Juliette Juarez Reyes | Apr 9, 2024 | Poetry

Beauty standards are all around.
Everywhere you turn you will see
a girl counting calories,
a girl looking deep within,
trying to see
what to be.

No one will ever be satisfied
with how she looks.

No one will ever be happy.
Not ever her.

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