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How Would You Paint Me

from Selena Rosanbalm by Selena Rosanbalm

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Would you paint me in Elizabethan collar
And a forty pound dress perched on a chair
Would you paint me looking down my nose in judgement
With the hyphen mouth and unforgiving stare
Of a pliant girl whose virtue is intact
Would you paint that

Would you paint me fat and peaceful in the forest
Posed suggestively by some provincial pond
Would you paint my eyes rolled back in satisfaction
Adored by men as green-eyed women look on
Because I have a certain knowledge some girls lack
Would you paint that

All the images you’ve seen
Affect your images of me
You feel confused when I am
Neither this nor that
God it’s getting dizzying
Looking back and forth between
What I am, what you expect
And what is left
If I’m an innocent no more
Then you label me a whore
Since my humanity’s ignored
How would you paint me

I would paint myself a face of consternation
On a body standing naked in the void
In a posture primed and rigid and expectant
There’ll be no accountability for boys
I can’t let go myself for fear of an attack
I would paint that

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from Selena Rosanbalm, released October 9, 2020

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Selena Rosanbalm Austin, Texas

A lot has happened since you last heard from Selena Rosanbalm. Her former country band Rosie and the Ramblers released "Whatever You Need" in 2014.

Rosanbalm’s new record journeys through the shock of loss and the fog of grief, the sting of disappointment and the injustice of sexism and racism, the bitterness of accepting a hard truth and the beauty of a lesson learned.
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