(hair)

My hair
is at an all time
low. Wavy in
strange places.
I always wanted
curly hair,
wavy was a close
second. But that
was years ago
and I have long
since come to love
my board-straight
tresses. Sometimes
life seems such
a cruel joke.
The way we end up
like we began.
I can look foward
to the genderless
body of a child,
too late to be
appropriate,
with gray
wavy hair.
But I’d rather
not.

2/12/99