Beautifully evocative. And how I relate!!!!

…ng war to anyone
who looks at you the wrong way
no — it’s not just age
or style
or evolving fashion
it’s that I know more about you now
and you know more about me
or at least you think you do
and you use that knowledge
to cut me open
and dissect me
and you leave me there on the table
splayed and pained
left searching my memory
for your once-friendlier face
no — it’s not cosmetic
you didn’t change the…
eyebrows
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Feb 17, 2021
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Beautifully evocative. And how I relate!!!!
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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