a collision of keratin
and chipping pigments
a meticulous routine spent
washing pale nails
in a montage of paint trails,
remnants of attempts at beauty
seeking, woefully, to fulfill their duty,
the nails below outlast their coats —
repainted but never the same,
almost, quite close, but lacking
the thing that that first shade left unnamed.
sing even if you sing badly; dance even if you dance horribly; write even if you write terribly; love even if you are bad at it.
I'm six on the living room floor -
the pink album the pink album I chant -
dad puts the Supremes on the record player, the jacket handed to me -
pink, with three of the most beautiful women I've ever seen -
the Midwest is a snake eating its own tail.
get out get out get out is the head, beating in time with the heartbeat of every new baby born in these states,
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