Workman, Nellie Bly

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The Prairie Light Review Volume 43 Number 1 Article 62 Fall 12-1-2020 The Lady Frankenstein Looks Into a Mirror Nellie Bly Workman College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/plr Recommended Citation Workman, Nellie Bly (2020) "The Lady Frankenstein Looks Into a Mirror," The Prairie Light Review: Vol. 43 : No. 1 , Article 62. Available at: https://dc.cod.edu/plr/vol43/iss1/62 This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Prairie Light Review by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact orenick@cod.edu. The Lady Frankenstein Looks Into a Mirror       What does the Lady Frankenstein see when she looks in a mirror?Does she see a woman?Or is it a stranger looking back at her?What kind of brain is bouncing around, freely, in that skull of hers?What’s it like staring into the mirror and seeing rotten mixed-tone fleshAnd uneven, unmatched hair pulled from several different corpsesTrying desperately to find a woman underneath?Painting her face with a thick coat of foundation to mask the scars from where the threads and staples used to beHer skin hangs off the bone and her back is crooked and her eyes are blackHer breasts sag and her stomach is not quite rightAnd she is a woman, she knows that, but she cannot find herself in the mirrorWithout a thick coat of foundation, some eye shadow, and a lot of squinting.     Nellie Bly Workman631Workman: The Lady Frankenstein Looks Into a MirrorPublished by DigitalCommons@COD, 2020

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