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False Advertising

Meghan Watts // Woodford County

Why should we want to live inside ads?

 

“2017’s best”, “2016’s worst”

The “what’s hot” the “what’s not”

Day after day we are pulled into the social drug that is a magazine, an advertisement, a blog.

Like fish being pulled from the sea gasping for air,

vulnerable, trivial, and unaware of what is truly going on.

Captured by the anglers who gain from our perish,

it’s impossible to avoid their hook.

 

From male to female the perfect expectation surrounds us,

We live to gain and progress, extending to these ads for “help”

or “inspiration”...

Yet this surmise of flawless is unfeasible, impractical, a lie.

As a child, you learn that lying is wrong,

blindly assuming everyone follows this moral.

Rules are shattered when it comes to sales, broken when it comes to “beauty”, halted when it comes to “hot”.

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