Give me imperfection

How endearing is a scar?
People like faces clean,
like they do their cars,
New, without dent or ding,
so they cut, inject, lift
In pursuit of pristine,
A fictitious dream;
They Botox as often
As they paint job,
Permanent brows,
Painted lips;
But I prefer the story
Of wrinkles, birth marks,
even pocks;
forget the tucks and nips,
Or the mistaken tattoo
They once got for a
love gone wrong.
Can't imagine
An illustrator
Without its cartoon.

Reviews

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Our modern society prefer to show beautiful clean icons and pictures. All dirt is hide . I member in one Czech underground magazine they describe this like corpse into the bag and penis into condom. Yes humans who have stigmas or scars looks more real and also have lot of stories to tell. Real writing is about us not about our fictions . Good pointing out.

[The Iron Horseman]

I couldn't agree more. Who wants an android? :)

[Maxwell Ryder]

Only if it's the phone. But I prefer pen and paper 📝