Exposed

Akshat Shukla
The Junction
Published in
1 min readJun 16, 2018
Image Credit: Hope_first

Glossy magazines,
And grossed-out, unnerving sexism
Served on the platter
Of compulsive consumption
Catering to base appetites.

The flash
Of the camera
Exposes the dark reality
She is subjected to,
She objectifies
The subjectivity
You are dying for.

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Akshat Shukla
The Junction

He is a poet, short story writer, essayist, playwright, and research scholar based in Kanpur, India. His book 'Micropoems' is available on Pothi (www.pothi.com)