TX:  Karen Greenbaum-Maya

                K a r e  n  G r e e n  b a u m - M a y a

TEXAS

Aftershave burns your eyes at ten paces

every T-shirt offends proudly

no man’s shirt has buttons.

Every girl glues on the false eyelashes

first thing, every morning

old ladies bare limp tattoos

I look svelte and chic.

Towns sprawl sparse

water towers the tallest thing on the horizon

no one walks, everyone drives.

The default station is Fox.

I heard more self-assured bigots

in just two days

than in eight years at home.

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