beauty queens

there are beauty queens,

normal and natural,
women who don't even have to
try to be
beautiful,

and then there are women with
a hell

of a lot of make up
and nice clothes,

who play the game.
a new mask each day they
leave the house to go out and
bite

someone on the neck.
my son at the age of five

once told me.
dad, he said, it seems

like women are trying to trick
men

with all that lipstick
and mascara.

I looked at him and said,
welcome

to the real world, my little
wise friend.