❛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚗❜
/ˈmanɪkɪn/
(𝚗.)
𝚊 𝚍𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚢 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠.

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i saw a mannequin.
it had sugared skin
and salty lips.

she stood still and supine in the hall of a mansion,
caramel chocking her throat,
staring without seeing, as everyone else ogled at her.
- but i saw a sugared mannequin with salty lips.

her sugar breath danced with the air, an aura
of scented shreds of sage thrown handfuls,
i knew with my eyes closed.
- i sensed a sugared mannequin with salty lips.

her lips played in an enigmatic smile,
i guess you were enchanted by your model,
but you didn't taste her.
- i felt a sugared mannequin with salty lips.

she brought her curled long eyelashes close to my face,
painting a story of salt sprinkled seas behind my own eyelids.
the caramel in her throat was molten now.
- i heard a sugared mannequin and she had salty lips.
and she said,
"you have beautified pain too much."

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