two lipsticked girls

A lipsticked girl

Her lips suffocated, grey underneath 

Shellacked under layer and layer of carmine

Men guide her hands to plaster more but she shoves them away
So she is all alone when she hears
You look tired today 

She drops the tube of plastic in his coffee

Watches as the oil oozes out in iridescent swirls 

A lipsticked girl

Her lips shiny, dark, orbiting the teeth bared between 

Adorned with layers and layers of rich color

She is all alone when she hears 

That doesn’t look natural

And she wants to drag him back, stab away with waxy sticks of Wet & Wild  

You mean to tell me

        Fields of poppies and flirty ladybugs

        Autumn leaves and clementines

        Dragon Fruits and galaxies above

Aren’t the most natural appearances in the world?