<\/p>\n
You might write a poem now
\nProselytizing the omen of my hair
\nTwining in the wind,
\nTelling the world my smile
\nFroze you in your tracks.<\/p>\n
Later you might paint Medusa
\nOver these features
\nTelling the world you should have
\nRecognized the signs and looked at me only in
\nReflection and retrospect.<\/p>\n
You might write a poem now
\nOf my far away gaze in the glass
\nWhile I brush, paint, and upholster to
\nFeed your expectations
\nYou love to see me dolled up.<\/p>\n
Later, you might re-write me as Narcissus.<\/p>\n
You might write a poem now
\nExtolling me as your Athena
\nBecause those martial arts make me
\nSexy and you imagine me kneeling at your
\nFeet.<\/p>\n
Later, you might be disagreeably
\nSurprised to find these arts take
\nTime and focus you can\u2019t redirect and fair warning there\u2019s a big
\nDifference between me and that
\nTV princess in a plastic chest plate you imagine
\nObediently placing herself beneath you.<\/p>\n
I might write a poem about how you poured through my
\nLocks as a shower of gold and you tasted my surrender.<\/p>\n
Later I might find, my Zeus, that the lock you
\nIgnored was there for a reason and this flamboyant
\nInsinuation past inconvenient limits is a
\nPattern with you.<\/p>\n
I might write a poem now
\nBunkering built up fears against the possibility that
\nYou might write a poem later: our roots and branches
\nEntwined through time as we age peacefully, becoming ourselves
\nBaucis and Philemon.<\/p>\n
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