WAS A MAN
Was a man, was a two-
faced man, pretended
he wasn’t who he was,
who, in a men’s room,
faced his hung-over
face in a mirror hung
over the towel rack.
The mirror was cracked.
Was a man, was a two-
faced man, pretended
he wasn’t who he was,
who, in a men’s room,
faced his hung-over
face in a mirror hung
over the towel rack.
The mirror was cracked.
Shaving close in that
looking glass, he knicked
his throat, bled blue
blood, grabbed a new
towel to patch the wrong
scratch, knocked off
the mirror and, facing
himself, almost intact,
in final terror hung
the wrong face back.
looking glass, he knicked
his throat, bled blue
blood, grabbed a new
towel to patch the wrong
scratch, knocked off
the mirror and, facing
himself, almost intact,
in final terror hung
the wrong face back.
Philip Booth
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