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playing dress-up


Matt Robinson



after morning after morning of scrubbing myself
clean;
those break-of-dawn baptismals,
i become tuxedoed.

all black and white and proper:
fit(ted).
no tattletale
(ambiguous)
grays.
all ironed: straight and creased;
these mock form(alitie)s.

you must (re)present yourself accordingly
at these things:
all black and white and straightened.
everything goes only where it belongs.

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