Remembering

I don't know why
I wrote so much
when I was twenty-seven

and let that woman
cut my hair
and listened
when she demanded
"take off your glasses
for this shot

"We already know
you write poetry
and it wouldn't hurt you
to wear a little lipstick"

Notes

McDaniel, Wilma. (2001) Borrowed Coats. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York.
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