You can learn anything

from YouTube.

Lately, this has been eye shadow

and how to choose foundation.

 

And, no, I am not a teenager.

 

When I was a teenager,

zipping round the rink

to the evangelical enthusiasm

of Newsboys’ “Shine,”

I turned up my nose

at the two boldly made-up girls

and their dangling silver-dollar sized hoops.

After all, had not Alcott’s hero

been aghast to discover

his love interest “painted” her face?

 

Now, having lost interest in being

an old-fashioned “good girl”

(at least, beyond the demands of my paycheck),

I wonder if I can be bolder.

 

The worlds war.

Watching “before” and “after” faces–

it seems that each

has both lost and gained.