BREAST IN SHOW

Keira Knightley says she is sick of seeing herself on the front cover of magazines and in ads with digitally blown up breasts. She said: “You’re not actually allowed to be on a magazine cover in the US without at least a C cup because it turns people off.” The Borkowski poet in residence imagines what might be going on in the minds of the magazine editors…

We’ll take a flat chest, a very flat chest
and we will make it bigger.
If you have cellulite we’ll put it out of sight
and we’ll fiddle with your figure.

We’ll take your acne and your heat rash,
cut them out with the computer.
We’ll make you perfect, a sales object,
we’ll make you infinitely cuter.

We’ll make you our girl, our little It Girl,
we’ll put you on the cover.
Our magazine will put you on the scene;
we’ll make the world want to be your lover.

We’ll take a flat chest, a very flat chest
with a pretty face attached.
As long as you do weight loss just like Kate Moss
all your flaws will be dispatched.

But out in public or on the catwalk
you’ll need to look the same.
The public’s perceptive – if you’re deceptive
they’ll cover you in shame.

So yes you’re our girl, our little it girl
and we have plastic surgeons waiting
who want to take you and then remake you
in the image we’re creating.