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Social Prejudice

May 28, 2013
By Anonymous

What do you do if you are not thin?

Overweight in a slender commercial world

People staring, leering with repulsion

Changing yourself, developing a thick skin

Models on covers living in their own dreamworld

As thin as a popsicle stick, unrealistic

The balance is off, too big or too small

Not being thin isn’t an abomination

Dealing with bullying, a daily conflict

Their words, their actions, their stares, it hurts

When they are near me, I begin to free fall

Into a deep void of hurt and mean

Bigger people are treated like dirt

But they shouldn’t be, fighting battles unseen

© Anonymous

The author's comments:
It is a common problem these days and i wanted to bring attention to it.
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This article has 2 comments.

Mrs. T said...
on Jun. 1 2013 at 7:46 pm
Thank you for sharing your views of this very real topic in todayls schools. You are an inspiration. Keep writing.
Mirooney BRONZE said...
on May. 29 2013 at 3:20 pm
Mirooney BRONZE, Hooksett, New Hampshire
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Favorite Quote:
Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still.
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132. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent.
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133. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure.
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134. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.

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This is amazing!!