Editor's note: Today is World Plastic Surgery Day
why I advise against
plastic surgery
by Tracy Mishkin
Hey,
purse snatchers!
I’m
Princess Scarface
of
the Amazons. No bluff
no
buff no polish.
Come
on, muggers! I’ll bare
my
teeth and hiss
offer
you a sharp kiss.
Bio: Tracy Mishkin is a call
center veteran with a PhD and an MFA student in Creative Writing at Butler
University. Her chapbook, I Almost Didn't Make It to McDonald's, was published
by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her second chapbook, The Night I Quit Flossing,
is forthcoming from Five Oaks Press. She has been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize.