Bitch: a 

female dog.
an unkind or unpleasant woman.

someone who will do everything you tell them to do because you

have complete control over them.

Resting Bitch Face: a person, usually a girl, who naturally

looks mean when her face is expressionless, without
meaning to. (Urban dictionary)

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Women are flocking to plastic surgeons to fix

‘resting bitch face’
Olivia Gatwood - "Ode1 To My Bitch
Face"
LINK TO POEM HERE
Here's how she introduced the poem:

So does everyone know what this term “resting bitch face” is? So that’s a term
coined 2 by someone who was just generally unhappy with the fact that
women aren’t smiling literally all the time. So you’re like sleeping, and he’s
like, “you have a bitch face!” and you’re like, “I mean I’m literally taking a
nap, so I’m sorry, I don’t know.”

So I’ve been doing this thing lately where I write odes to things I think I’m
supposed to feel ashamed3 of, which is largely how shame works. We think
we’re supposed to feel it, we’re told we’re supposed to feel it, about the way

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Ode: a poem expressing the writer's thoughts and feelings about a particular person or
subject, praising or glorifying it.
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to COIN: to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the
first time:
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mortified, humiliated.
that we live and act and walk and speak and dress and are. And then we feel it
because someone told us to, it’s not an organic feeling really. So I’ve been
writing odes to things like that to counteract4 that feeling. So this is an “Ode
to my Bitch Face.”

POEM:
You pink armor 5 lipstick 6 rebel steel 7cheek slit mouth8 head to the ground
mean9 girl. You had ‘phones10 in but no music. You house key turned blade11,
you quick step between street lights, strainer12 of pricks13 and chest beaters,
laughter is a foreign language to your dry ice tongue. 
Resting bitch face, they call you, but there is nothing restful14 about you, no.
Lips like a flat-lined heartbeat, panic at the sight15 of you, scream for their
mothers, throat full of bees16, head spun17 360 exorcist bitch. 

Just trying to buy a soda. Just trying to do your laundry. Just trying to dance at
the party and then someone asks you to smile and the blood begins to riot18.

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respond to, neutralize

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A strong metal
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Slit Mouthed Woman: a messed up Asian horror movie involving a woman with a slit (cut)
mouth running around with giant scissors slitting people’s mouths.
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cruel
10
earphones
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knife
12
filter
13
annoying guys
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peaceful
15
picture
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full of energy, angry
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rotated
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start a rebelión, an insurrection, a mutiny
Smile and you chisel away19 at your own jaw. Smile and you unleash20 the
swarm 21 into the mouth of a man who wants to swallow you whole.

One theory is that you are born like this but I don’t believe it. You came out
screaming and alive and look at you now. Look at how you’ve learned to hide
your teeth. What’s wrong with your face, bitch? Your face, bitch, what’s
wrong with it? Bitch face, I don’t blame you for taking the iron22 pipe23 from
their hands and branding24 yourself with it. For making a flag out of your
body bag25. 

Another theory is that you put it on26 every morning. Screw it tight27 like a
jar of jelly but I don’t believe that either. You woke up like this and have
been for years. How can you sleep pretty when there are four locks on the
door and the fire escape feels like break-in bait28. They will tell you home is
safe zone. 
No, bitch face is safe zone. Bitch face is home. Bitch face is cutting off the
ladder29, willing to burn in the apartment if it means he can’t get in.

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realease, let free
21
a large group of insects
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a strong type of metal
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tube
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to mark an animal such as a cow by burning or freezing its skin to show you own it
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a heavy plastic bag used to transport a dead person, especially a soldier who has been killed in a war
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put on an act
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to close it hard
28
attraction. For example, in fishing, it’s what makes fish bite the hook.

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