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today's perfect woman

Project Begins: Saturday, October 05, 2002
Project Ends: Saturday, November 02, 2002

Project Details: Please choose from one of the following project options, and be sure to answer all of the questions assigned to the project option you choose.

OPTION NO. TWO: Write a piece of prose or poetry (fiction, or nonfiction if you are able!) that contains all of the following: a leak, an instrumental album, a robe, time, sadness, lace panties, numbers.

No one knows today�s perfect woman
But I recognize the model: career, family, friends
Fill her decorated lifestyle with enough buzz and zing
To push the effects of time to another door
Where some unsuspecting woman, wearing sadness
Like a robe, learns again about patience and happiness.

The vainest and shallowest people around me
Are constructing this new prototype of aspiration, every day,
From all of the moldy stuff I thought had gone away.

Today�s perfect woman packs chaos and sunshine
Into every lunch or endless Saturday errand,
Leaving behind tiny trailing bits. The rest
Of us discover it like confetti still surfacing
From a party four years ago.

She is the type of woman who would run
A marathon in lace panties. The kind of woman
Who grills acquaintances and mimics the secrets
Of their souls to others for recognition,
Demonstrating that between her mind
And her heart, she has sprung a leak.

Today�s perfect woman is not about content.
After a day spent benchmarking style and quality,
She puts on a Herb Alpert album for its kickiness
And does her stretches to the Tijuana brass,
Unaware of the sound of the horns moving in all directions
Away from her the real life she cannot catch.

11:10 p.m. - 2002-10-28

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