Saturday, 28 November 2020

Wild Confusion

 

The wild confusion of your hair causes you consternation 

Like wiry twists of fencing wire your frustration

sticks out; there is no hiding it

And you so hate the curled morass

that does not conform to your middle class

expectations; there is no abiding it

So you tie it back tight against your neck

Your earrings bright where they bedeck

your creamy lobes; preferring to tame it.

Your desire for linear strands frustrated

nonetheless leaves your wishing unabated


I ask what would help your follicle control

You say to reclaim it.



MDC 2016


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