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.
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