Replacing Truth with Beauty

  Replacing Truth with Beauty

 

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” ~ John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

 

The trick is making it look effort-free.

The style must seem as natural as hair

Inside an armpit.  If the star is she,

Not he, the use of hair-removing Nair

Or razors is concealed.  The nose jobs are

Expensive so the fans don’t notice false

Improvements.  If there is a little scar

Beneath each breast, the camera does a waltz

Away from boob job evidence.  “Nothing here

To see,” is Hollywood’s unspoken word.

The stars are packaged as without a peer

In Crudsville.  They’d never squeeze out a turd.

..The sting, though, is it’s all a trap.  Seeming

…..Ousts being for the projector’s beaming.

Phillip Whidden