(15) Dress-Up
All it takes is a little bit of lipstick,
some shimmer-creme foundation,
a little light-blue eye shadow,
a touch of charcoal pencil,
and I become quite interesting--
to that guy I've passed a thousand times,
and everyone.
Back in the bathroom mirror,
I stand to face this stranger's face,
and think how they think
that this
is what I'm supposed to look like.
(16) First Impression
Halfway through my awkward introduction,
this older woman looks me in the eye
and tells me, soft but unmistakably,
You're a beautiful person.
And I wonder what she could have seen of me
in a span of seven seconds
to inspire such an interjection.
And it isn't that I don't believe her;
I just wish that I could see it
the way she does.
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