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When Beautiful Girls Become Ugly Art

Emy Bracco
Jun 12, 2024

Why do I feel the need to shred this photo and hide it from the world? I do not look or feel particularly beautiful or special in it.

I’ll happily deface a photo I find unappealing of myself with my words.

But I’ll leave and send the ones where I’m put together, cute, and beautiful to my boyfriend, Instagram, or whomever I need external validation from that’s willing to give it.

But if I’m stripped down and bare – I must change it. Make it something new. Make it beautiful again.

At least make it fucking meaningful, if you can’t make it beautiful.

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Emy Bracco
Emy Bracco

Written by Emy Bracco

Writing poems since before I knew what poetry meant. Maybe, that's why I never kept a single one. Not until my heart broke open did I start keeping my words.

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