Bare Expression
The little naked girl
Barefoot and full of dust
Was running around in the village
Without raising too much hue and cry.
As she grew older
As she differentiated
She got to cover herself
For dignity,
For decency
To conform and become
A civilized woman
Outlawed
primitive trends
natural outfits
Of the women in Amazon rain forest
Or of the Polynesian girls
Before missionaries taught them
To dress in the civilized way
God’s pinnacle of creation
Now can be seen only surreptitiously
In adults only magazines
Or in xxxx videos or movies
Or as an anthropologic curiosity
In National Geography magazine
Or in the form of artistic expression
On stones, marbles and lithographs
To adore expensive homes and museums
As pristine reproduction of God’s art
Nude but not naked.
If she chooses the birthday suite
She is in big trouble
Unless
She is very much
In front of the pack
Like the women on Greek island beaches
Or in Riviera
Lying on Nice pebbles
Doing sun worship
Or she is the voluptuous sumptuous model
Getting paid heftily
To bare herself
For others to shoot her
To paint her
To transform her
From indecency to ageless beauty
From immoral to ultimate expression of
Human creativity
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January 18,2002
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