Social Graces
I've never been much for social graces
painted make-up on ugly faces
structures to fit into
to follow up with face of you
if you could see yourself now
I wonder if you'd revert somehow
if you could find a way
to deal with yourself today
fretfully whisking back your hair
turning your nose into the air
your social graces pull you high
makes you pretty only in the eye
of the top of the ladder
each time you look, the mirror's sadder
you keep on pressing your nose
against it
can't have those unpretty grudges
good after you rinsed it
clean of its smudges.