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"SKINS" Open Mic: Kim Selling

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    This piece is definitely about body image,
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    it's basically synthesizing over 2 decades of assholes.
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    Uh, get ready to get a little uncomfortable.
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    This is called "fat bottomed girls"
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    If every bastard who had ever judged my body
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    were lined up in front of me firing squad style,
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    and I were given the right to do with them as I pleased,
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    I would be at a loss.
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    I would probably yell "EAT ME!"
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    cuz I love a good fat girl pun.
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    But there's nothing else left inside
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    to make them understand the extreme ignorance and mis-spent pain that they embody.
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    You can all
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    just
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    fucking
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    eat me.
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    Devour my scarlet throbbing flesh
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    like junior high vultures.
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    Like sorority pledge councils.
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    Like debutante beauty queens.
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    I don't look like you.
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    What the fuck else is new?
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    There's no footnote in the regulations index of my life
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    that says I have to sleep on elipticals
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    and suck down the hopeful semen of boys named Jimmy
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    until you understand my body.
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    You wont ever understand my body.
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    I am Miss Piggy.
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    I am Mama Cass.
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    I am fuckin' Aretha.
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    And I love being these women.
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    I love being fat.
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    My thighs shriek rough and ready sex
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    like downtown thunder.
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    My ass drips vanilla milkshakes,
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    and my personal style is baby gay Madonna meets crop top goth
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    and it doesn't
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    fuckin'
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    matter.
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    Being fat doesnt make me different.
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    Fuck, I look like America.
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    But loving that I'm fat
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    makes me a Pillsbury rebellion.
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    I hold protests in my mouth every time I eat in public.
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    Picket signs wallpaper my willing body
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    when I dance naked in my apartment.
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    Riots Not Diets is tattoed across my chest.
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    And I live for the moment when I shock you into silence.
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    Because being me is fucking political.
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    And you never voted for this shit.
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    Body image is just bad English for
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    how hard you stomp the sidewalks
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    and how many cracks in the mirror you've traced.
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    I may have been picked last for softball,
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    but I was nationally ranked in tennis.
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    And you'll never be ready for this jelly
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    cuz all you eat are sad-ass spoonfulls of
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    organic low sodium peanut butter.
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    Speak the truth here.
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    Yeah, I tend to date black guys and I rarely say no to a homemade baked good,
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    but that says no more about me than
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    how you chew Big Red compulsively when you're nervous
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    or how you can never say no to your mother says about you.
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    So just let it be.
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    We're grownups now,
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    I think.
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    There are no more lunchtime kickball teams,
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    and I already have a date to the next dance,
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    so, when you feel the need
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    to pretend to be concerned about my "health" or "well-being",
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    just know that I've already let go of the trigger,
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    firing squad style.
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    Just know that you don't have to count the calories
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    when I tell you to fucking
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    eat me.
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    [APPLAUSE]
Title:
"SKINS" Open Mic: Kim Selling
Video Language:
English
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