My Facetious Facade of a Face.

What’s so wonderful

About my eyes

Outlined?

Am I more,

Am I more

Interesting

Feminine

Lovely,

With lips redder?

With eyelashes longer?

With cheeks false flushed?

Am I more

Womanly

Intelligent

Sweet,

With freckles concealed?

With eyebrows artificially arched?

If I were

To blow you a kiss

With lips so

Saturated red,

And eyelids

Shimmering,

Deep mysterious gold,

On a night like tonight-

Pregnant with possibility,

Would you kick me

To the pavement

With a brutal half-goodbye

To wake and find

That I am more

Than my factitious face?

Aren’t I more,

Aren’t I more

Than a factitious face?

2011