I’m not showering today
or washing my face
or putting on a bra
or shaving my legs.
Clearly no make-up.
My face may change.
I’ll think about deodorant
and brushing my teeth
and eating something other than
hubba bubba and coffee.

Costume enough.
Children beware: a poet lives here.


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