the eyebrow convention

i see her bags by the door.

going somewhere? i ask her.

yes, she says.

i'm going up to NYC for a few

days,

for the eyebrow convention

at Madison 
Square Garden.

huh?

i'm thinking about reshaping

my eyebrows.

expert eyebrow ologists from

all over the world

will be there.

do you know you can knock

off two years of

aging, with the right eyebrow

alignment,

and coloring?

no way, i tell her.

so what are you going for?

the Pelosi look of constant

surprise or the Brooke

Sheild look, the one stroke

unibrow?

i'm not sure, i'm thinking 

Marlene Dietrich maybe,

the movie star from the golden

age of Hollywood.

subtle but glamorous.