ALL women are lovely and radiantly fair <br />In the magazine pages today, <br />They all have a mop of luxuriant hair, <br />In the magazine pages today. <br />There's not one with freckles or nose gone askew, <br />Or teeth that protrude, as some real girls' do, <br />There isn't a blemish on girls that we view <br />In the magazine pages today. <br /> <br />There's not one too pudgy or not one too thin, <br />In the magazine pages today; <br />Nor one who's just losing her tortoise shell pin, <br />In the magazine pages today. <br />'Twixt shirtwaist and belt there is never a gap, <br />Or a tear in the silk that is lining her wrap, <br />And her gloves never lack a pearl button or snap, <br />In the magazine pages today. <br /> <br />She doesn't wear pink when she ought to wear blue, <br />In the magazine pages today; <br />And she isn't run down at the heel of her shoe, <br />In the magazine pages today. <br />You never can see when she hasn't a hat, <br />How much is real hair and how much of it's rat, <br />It's only in real life that we see things like that, <br />Not in magazine pages today.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/magazine-girl/
