Even if I don't

Paint my salon-manicured fingernails a cotton candy pink

Smear gritty eyeliner above my lashes and ice

My lids with a silvery shadow to make my eyes 'pop'�

Or glittery lipstick that smudges across my teeth

Before pulling on a shrunken pink t-shirt that proclaims

I am 'Spoiled'� and low riding jeans that show a lacy red thong,

Thoughtfully complementing my Wonderbra

Or wear dangly hoop earrings that snag my freshlycurled hair

While rolling in style in a cute Littlegirlcar with 'Princess'� vanity plates

Listening to badly written songs

About a girl who is waiting for a man to come

Rescue her from insecure loneliness

Or watch MTV to see what the latest disposable 'female'� cut-outs are wearing

While flipping through a Howtobeawoman magazine

To read my Horoscope and the soap opera update

To see if Dick will marry Jane

But instead, I

Spend more money on second-hand books

Than clothes and talk openly about feeling hormonal and brag

About downing two chocolate bars

And don't shave my legs every day

I am still a woman.