Ring ting ting Hear ye Hear ye Rise up and shine Lead me let me wander And if that should fail I will bark in your face

I see that my face confuses you I have politely said ‘no’ to all your insistent, ignorant guesses Yet you press me further I am not from whichever exotic land you think I am from I will not change my answer to make you comfortable…

Her face has seen six decades with freckles in the first ten years that life eventually covered. Those teen years survived the popping of zits and make-up, and dripping of “Dippity-Do.”   Motherhood years brought a broken nose, falling on a snowy concrete step, but…