A Lady's Room
Whiteness is the perfect stage for
corner bugs and painted toes
as bouncy as Midols.
For CDs and candle wax and
bits of perfume bottle glass.
A towel, a rug, rain-soaked sneaks.
MIA earrings waiting for the perfect light combination.
Lake path sand and sobbing ice cream pints.
All witness to the mini surgeries and facials;
the arias and witchy-wailed potions;
the chirpy Sundays and mean Mondays;
and all names cursed in rage or ecstasy.
By a single girl.
In the big city.
In her own bathroom.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAAXX XXX XXXBXBX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 7 |
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