Britain's Missing Top Model (2011)

Britain's Missing Top Model (2011)

(December 25, 2011) Britain’s Missing Top Model. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)

Britain's Missing Top Model

I've only got
one hand
I'd like to be

a fashion model
Trying on her jeans
she finds a rip

on the morning
of her interview
with the Agency

This day can only go
uphill from here
heroic

nervous to the point
of near-paralysis
she manages to smile

at the brusque no-nonsense
manager
embrace the team

sit quietly while they
critique her
32 23 35

(too hippy)
23 (too old)
& then debate

her fate
cries when they say
they'll represent her

I need to tell my Mum

(23-7/5/11)

For Jack. Mosehouse Studio (15/12/11)

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