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Yes, it is
frivolous
expensive
time-consuming
artificial
dangerous
and unworthy.
Yes, it mimes
the posterior
sexual colorations
of the adult
male mandrill.
Yes, the number
of products
pawned off
on women,
with “rev-”
“-some”
and “-ique”
in their names
is indeed
scandalous.
No, a woman’s face
can’t need
toner, blusher,
liner, smudger,
powder, cover,
enhancer—
plus base,
lotion, stick,
and rouge
all at once.
And yes, I shall wear it.
For: The names are beautiful.
This is closet art.
Men without are not better
than women with.
Nature loves a color display.
Clowns and mimes are magic.
First published in I Am Becoming the Woman I Wanted. (Papier-Mache Press, l995).
Used with the author’s permission.
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Jan Seale, the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, lives seven miles from the Texas-Mexico border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. She writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her poems are collected in nine volumes: Bonds, Sharing the House, Believing is Seeing, The Yin of It, Valley Ark, The Wonder Is, Nape, Jan Seale: New and Selected Poems, and The Parkinson Poems. Jan believes poetry puts the shine and finish world of feeling and spirit. Learn more about her at www.janseale.com.
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erinsnana:
wonderful--especially the last line!
Posted 09/20/2014 12:10 PM
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paradea:
Well said!
Posted 09/20/2014 09:24 AM
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Cindy:
I don't wear it but this poem makes me appreciate it. Nice job.
Posted 09/20/2014 08:51 AM
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rhonasheridan:
Great! I Am just about to apply a lovely shade of slightly sun-struck Revlon! I feel ten years younger when smothered in it. I love it. It makes me smile - aided a bit by a smear of exotic pink.....I shall meet the world head on - and at my age that is quite a stretch!
Posted 09/20/2014 03:14 AM
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fuddygail:
Gail Pickus:
This is wonderful! All of it...Yes, it is...especially the Mandril...
Posted 09/20/2014 12:49 AM
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KevinArnold:
What fun, esp the last line.
Posted 09/19/2014 11:28 PM
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