A Definitive Hostile Takeover of ‘The Industry’

Dear Pre-Summer Body with attached Post-Winter Worries,

Ipso facto targeted marketing campaigns designed to exploit your areas of disintegration

Seize indecision and vulture-descend en masse over vulnerabilities, i.e. straightforward bathing suit shopping gets clean-pick guzzled with body shame pre-purchase:

Too chubby, too angular. Too scarred or cosmetically altered. Too flabby-too-muscular-big/small-breasted, sun-deprived/sun-darkened/shaved not waxed, etc., etc.

Riotous revolution against corporeal component ownership sans your say-so.

Ass-backwards assault and battery perpetrate pristine thought content that simply wanted to take a swim for chrissake!

Cessation of hostilities now requires your declaration, determination, and disgust at nonverbal commentary that gained auricular entry. *Insert cuss word here_____.*

That ONE thing not up for collective debate: Worthiness or desirability. Okay, two. Ain’t at the beach, lake, watering hole, river, or wading pool for nobody’s critical eyes which should just look 'somefrigginwhere' else.

Ingress of beauty and perfection lies in adolescence survived. Babies birthed. Life after surgery, disease. Formal education meant to end you. Miscarriage. Chronic pain, self-harm, despair, psychosis, and everything else this body done survived.

Omnipotence over all parts you, not to be drawn and quartered by the public at large equals legs strong, belly bellissima, skin aesthetic artistry, hips engaging, breasts heaven-sent divinity viewed through the lens of “Scaled heights of such bliss I don’t need to wear a top—but I do.”

No sand-drawn line kept you outta this existence, so don’t dare get it twisted. Take up as much room as you want to love every bit of all who you are, darling. And politely tell everyone who disagrees to screw themselves.

Thank you for reading my combination 'self-love-positive-affirmation-protest-against-the-industry-and-body-shame-culture' poem! It's been percolating for just the right moment.

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