Notice how the superficial and beautiful get away with bleeding the hungry? <br />It is they who want fine dresses made of silk dyed red by worker’s blood dripping from the wounds of their bone thin hands. <br />Notice how the superficial and beautiful get away with skinning the innocent? <br />It is they who want fine winter coats of skin from the soft hides of dead bodies of the most adorable animals from the wild. <br />Notice how the superficial and beautiful get away with poisoning the young? <br />It is they who want fine powdered cosmetics tested on the supple flesh of “volunteer” dogs and cats and orphans and women. <br />Notice how the superficial and beautiful get away with drowning the needy? <br />It is they who want fine large pearls from the seas, collected by twelve-year-old divers who brave the shark-infested waters. <br />Notice how the superficial and beautiful don’t know what they get away with? <br />It is they who brighten up our days and nights with their glamorous lifestyles of useless excess and their seamless unearthly beauty. <br />Notice how the superficial and beautiful don’t get blamed for much?<br /><br />Warren Augustus de Guzman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-fickle-as-they-come/
