{"id":7205,"date":"2016-06-08T20:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7205"},"modified":"2016-06-08T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:59:34","slug":"jezebel-behind-the-cosmetics-counter-at-macys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7205","title":{"rendered":"Jezebel Behind the Cosmetics Counter at Macys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Allison Thorpe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A queen reduced to this:<br \/>\ndebating the shape of an eyebrow,<br \/>\nweighing the merits of lilac lips<br \/>\nor persimmon frosted nails,<br \/>\nlingering the air with scented lures.<\/p>\n<p>I know something about adornments,<br \/>\nwhat a strong-willed ambitious woman<br \/>\nneeds to survive in the arena of men.<br \/>\nThere are others more beautiful,<br \/>\nmore wily in the ways of selling,<br \/>\nbut the customers come to me.<\/p>\n<p>I nude their mouths for boardrooms,<br \/>\nscarlet the lips for hungry nights,<br \/>\nline the eyes in smudge and smoke,<br \/>\ncoat the lids with shadow green envy<br \/>\nlike some graceful knowing cat<br \/>\nwhose preening tongue<br \/>\ncreams the shapely limbs.<\/p>\n<p>A painted woman before my time.<br \/>\nWho knows what I could have achieved<br \/>\nin this world, this age that expects,<br \/>\neven demands, perfection.<\/p>\n<p>I could warn them about the dangers,<br \/>\nthe tightrope that drive and desire walk,<br \/>\nbut a girl needs coin on the dresser.<br \/>\nSo I peddle the wares of passion,<br \/>\nheighten the cultured gaze,<br \/>\nwhet this desire for the power,<br \/>\nthe feasting of wild dogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALLISON THORPE<\/strong> is a writer from Lexington, KY. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in <em>Two Hawks Quarterly, Misfit Magazine, So To Speak, Crab Fat, Literary Juice, Yellow Chair Review, Poetry Pacific<\/em>, and <em>Gingerbread House<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Thorpe A queen reduced to this: debating the shape of an eyebrow, weighing the merits of lilac lips or persimmon frosted nails, lingering the air with scented lures. I know something about adornments, what a strong-willed ambitious woman needs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7202,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Sd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7205\/revisions\/7211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}