Love Poem: Runny Mascara
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Written by: Jennifer Brooks

Runny Mascara

"So what will you do without me?" 
he asks, 
 

     I will become Jezzebel, 
like all the other forgotten 
women of romance movies, 
     huddle in the back alley ways of 
notorious speakeasies 
in a revealing red dress 
and weep the soul of you 
out of me 
into your perfectly white kerchief, 

runny mascara, 
  
   that's what.