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clemintina has orange hair
when the obvious is humorous
and when its not.

they still call the wild pigs wild pigs
even though they live inside sloping barbed wire
that they did not erect.

in palestine we live inside barbed wire
barbed wire that snags my clothes differently than the gray cats’ claws.

compared to those wild pigs
the cats' hair is contained.

i cringe at the thought of the wild pigs hair
and dust a cat hair off my snagged pajama pants.

i don’t want to talk about clemintina’s hair because i don’t like human hair off the head of the human and i remember henny’s hair-dye-stick full of hair.

sick.

the man i love is missing hair
but we don’t look for it
because sometimes the obvious is humorous
and sometimes its not.

a magic carpet
full of holes
but I a seamstress
giggle in delight.