Dorsey Craft Jacksonville (Jessica Q Stark)
Rejected Persona: Influencer Bury me in pearly packaging—glass bottles, sage green, buff peach. This is the Dior in shade MG4. This is the Glam Shine Glow Glitz Fairy Cootchie in shade NC7. Where to go from here? Maybe pivot to mommy content—Do Moses baskets come with warnings? NOT a flotation device. NOT an allusion, metaphor, or simile. There is only so much space in the cloud for my ass in mom jeans, tilt hips, pop knee, skinny arm, lose the possessive “my,” lose the feminine “her”. I told my mom I’m playing with my gender and she goes “I guess I have aways played with mine” and I was like Yes, bitch, exactly. Get ready with me. I want to do one side of my face in hibiscus, the other deer blood. Body fluids are the brand. So is violence, like do not call me, I am busy layering serums, snatching my contour, suggested reel /suggested real. It’s clean because we say it’s clean. I litter used language: daisy-fresh, feather-light, butter-smooth. I am the active ingredient. I want to live surprise-free, scroll-dazed, soul washed pink as a millennium. |
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