Taking out frustration anonymously on inanimate objects
This poem presents an image from everyday life, an image most-likely every reader was a witness to in their lifetime. We have an overly sexualized poster of a girl that's supposed to attract the viewers to come to the place that is being promoted. It's supposed to be a sunny and cheery advertisement but it mostly attracts negativity as it is soon tattered and replaced. So why is it that the poster was a target of frustration and negativity? Is it because people don't want to see a cheerful image of a sexualized girl, is it because the society is filled with frustration and anger? The line in the last stanza seems to confirm that: She was too good for this life. It is said with an ironic undertone, but it holds truth a well, this life, this frustrated society doesn't want to see an image like that. This critic of society is further strengthened with the last line where the poster "Fight Cancer" is placed instead.
Female body as a tool for advertisement
The overly used, but truthful phrase "Sex sells" is portrayed in this poem as well. The girl welcomes the visitors with a laughing face and a skimpy outfit which enhances the view of her body parts. Everything is made for the purpose of attracting attention; this sort of image of the girl is not coincidental and the plan of it worked, it indeed attracted the attention, but not the kind the creator of the poster was hoping for.
