Music Box Tiny Woman Beautiful
How you hold your arms out
as if you were to spin
and then you spin !
I am ten You’re an inch
and oh
your pinch waist and boom
skirt, your up
hair, your hot
pin paint dots of eyes,
your diligence to elegance
the kind I learned with a book
on my head
in etiquette class at the downtown Lazarus
department store, in a
low-ceilinged corner room
past the perfume and the skin
things
What word means
grace and restraint
patience and cuticles
interest and unintrusiveness
quietude and breasts
upright and inhale?
Tiny Woman
You turn and turn yourself around
and the plinking
operates beneath
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