Chimera Song Mosaic
Monday, January 26, 2004
 
Oh, no, this is the last one. Well, I have a new series in store for you--a found one--so I won't have to think for another week. Sound good? Posting these here has really made me realize how much revision they need. Here's the last one:

[Makeup]

An actor will age the way we all age, save extreme measures, expensive cosmetics, pancake artistry. All must succumb to the passage of time, or else for this instant, pretend. Years younger, where are the plumper cheeks, the flat-veined neck, the mattered eyes? If this is our retreat into wisdom & sexual agility, where is the nascence when we take it off again?
- posted by Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo @ 11:00 AM

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