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Lip gloss MAG
“Always wear lip gloss,”
my mother gently scolded me,
inching a tube filled with pink ooze
to my lips.
I wondered why I had to wear lip gloss
if I only talk to the cracks in the pavement.
I’ve never been great with conversation.
I think it’s because I wonder
if people are actually
listening to my voice,
or simply
waiting
to hear their own.
I guess that’s why I’ve traded in glitter glue-tipped wands for
ballpoint
spears.
Mouths can no longer fire
bullets of
slander or dismissal,
I only bleed wasted ink.
I tell my mother
that I won’t wear
lip gloss
because it
all
dries
up
anyway.
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