One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy

One Reason I Like Opera

by Marge Piercy

from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here)

In movies, you can tell the heroine because she is blonder and thinner than her sidekick. The villainess is darkest. If a woman is fat, she is a joke and will probably die. In movies, the blondest are the best and in bleaching lies not only purity but victory. If two people are both extra pretty, they will end up in the final clinch. Only the flawless in face and body win. Tha...