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A Slide in a “Harmless” Microscope
My cold, glass skin
Placed on the stage of a microscope
It doesn’t seem all that scary at first.
People gather around,
And peer through the looking glass.
They analyze everything about me
Not one detail goes unnoticed.
They collect data, and jot down observations
to be shared later
They pick apart every tiny detail they see.
One mistake.
One simple, wrong move
And everything
Is different.
I try to maneuver myself to be seen the same,
But I am no different
Living under the microscope has ruined me,
But I’m still here.
That small mistake is all they see.
To them, I am ruined
Yet the destruction entertains them.
It creates an audience
More and more people gather
To observe, and share their opinions
They don’t care about me.
They wash me up,
And throw me out
like the rest of them.
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Taylor Swift and her Netflix documentary Miss Americana, inspired me to write this poem. I started thinking about how people in society use social media to analyze every move celebrities make, just how scientists zoom in on slides using a microscope. When society does this to celebrities, it destroys the person. Sometimes people forget that even the biggest stars still have feelings. The microscope slide is meant to symbolize 21st century celebrities. The microscope itself represents social media, and the people that look through the eyepiece symbolize society and the people that tear down others through the media.