And she’s got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes, and she’s got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise. She’s got an old death kit she’s been meaning to use–she’s got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you;

Before the Mirror
John Updike (1996)
How many of us still remember 
when Picasso’s “Girl Before a Mirror” hung 
at the turning of the stairs in the pre- 
expansion Museum of Modern Art? 
Millions of us, probably, but we form 
a dwindling population. Garish 
and brush-slashed and yet as balanced 
as a cardboard Queen in a deck of giant cards, 
the painting proclaimed, “Enter here 
and [...]

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New Haven, Temple St. Garage, Nov. 1 2007, 6:55 PM.

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