Make-up/down
languisity
“Somebody cleans up nice,” they say, even though cleaning is the opposite of what you’ve gone and done. Like the ones before you, thousands of years past, who lined their eyes with lead and smeared ashes on their lids, coated their lashes with wax, you’ve layered your face with dirt and hoped it would make you more than what you were. It did make you more than what you were. It made you a star.
But now that you’re taking it off your face, you can see this stuff for what it is: a beautiful mess. Absurd, really, for all that it was wanted. And this is you, cleaning. Alone with the tap running and your face in your hands. This is how you clean up nice.
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