plucking chin hair on a Wednesday night
an audio poem
no one ever told me
aging would mean
facial creams
lactose alternatives
tweezing chin hair
or massaging achy knees
all before 10 PM
I would’ve appreciated
the memo
instead, I’m stuck
doing all these things
and plucking ingrown hairs
from a stubborn chin
as I listen to
soft soul music
via surround sound
on a Wednesday night
the dog stands at
the master bath’s doorway
watching me fit a face
that takes so much
work to hold up against
all odds
I wonder if she has
a better way to
calm perimenopausal
symptoms or if she’s
just being so damn nosy
A Cornered Gurl 
Jernee is like what in the world I goin on here! LOL
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🤣😂😆 She should be used to it by now. Lol!
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LOL
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Guurrrrllllll trE, let’s not talk about those doggone chin hairs! UGH! 😝😲🤣 Love your poem sistah queen! 💖
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Thank you! 🤣😂😆
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You’re welcome trE! My pleasure! 🥰🙌🏼😍
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Love your sass! Jernee just HAS to stick her nose in it. 😂
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Haha! Jernee needs to help me out over here a little bit. Lol.
Thank you!
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My pleasure!
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Hahahaaha. I hear ya loud and clear. Too funny. What chin hairs? You obviously see better than me, so there’s that. 😉💕
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The “memo” yes! The element of surprise is the alternative, I guess. Happy to find an audio poem from you on this Friday late afternoon. Thanks, trE!
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Thank you kindly! A friend of mine mentioned missing the audio poems, so here we are. 🙏🏾💙
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Happy to be here! 🌼
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On a separate note, these chin hairs are the worst! They seem to grow overnight.
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THAT PART! YAAASSS! Ugh!
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“I would’ve appreciated a memo,” LOL Me, too, trE, me too 😂😂😂
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 They just threw us out here and was like, “There you go. Take that.” 😆😂🤣
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Right. No lifejacket, toolkit, or anything lol
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BAYBAY! That part!!!
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No one told me either 🤣 and what a pain in the chin it is!
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Yaaasss!!! A pain!!! 😆😂🤣
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Oh my
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Why is it that no-one tells us the things we really need to know? There should be a compulsory module on all courses to cover this!
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THIS! I agree with this, Peter! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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I commented under the sound cloud audio!
I have to shave my “mustache”, so I get that one, lol! I love listening to your poems much better than reading them! PS: i don’t tweezers or pluck anything, i use one of those personal touch thingies -i don’t know the technical name, but they sell them at Walgreens, lol!
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Haha! I’m using this all natural hair fading oil and that is REALLY working but it’s a slow process, so I still tweeze, too.
And thank you very much!
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Oh don’t get me going on chin hair. Aargh.
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😆😂🤣 It’s annoying!
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Love this! Aging is such a beautiful thing.🙃😊
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🙏🏾❤️
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This was so fabulous!!!! So many surprising things no one told you about aging! Or maybe we just weren’t listening!!
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Thank you! Oh, I know I haven’t heard about any of this mess until I got older. 😆😂🤣 They could have given us some warning signs! Lol.
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