plein [L]
teenage me
paris me
long hair
this teenage me
unlike paris me
nagged to tart it brush
so obviously did not
mother sister pounced
“long hair’s out of fashion
in london you know”
we lived in obscureville plain
“why don’t you cut yours short”
“oh look the sky is blue”
i said
tho’ now i know
le mode has complex culture
empty lives have harder causes
even so
to imply they’d thought that’s why
my insult reply
was apt
still stands
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