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Poetry: The masks we wear

by Elisabeth Long

Created on: November 07, 2009

Bleach Job

I'm the blue-eyed blond

with roots

that won't come white

no matter how thick

the cream is rubbed in

or squirted on

no matter how long

it stays there.

I'm bound in vinyl

pumped up

and spun round

for this special treatment.

Still the shafts

stand up black

from roots deep inside.



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