M.A. Hastings Poetry

M.A. Hastings Poetry

Take Another Look...

So perhaps you'll see you for you

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M.A. Hastings Poetry
Jun 12, 2025
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Woman with long brown hair and more tentative smile is standing in front of a green leafy background. Another white haired woman is more broadly and confidently smiling as she drapes her aged arms and hands around the younger brown haired woman. The two women look so much alike that they could be mother and daughter.
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As You Are

To go to war in which

it’s the Scalpels

versus the

Prune Skins

is a battle against yourself

in

which there is no

win

Why would you choose

to botox away

your ability to smile

When that broad uplift

of your lips

can go miles in making

someone else’s day?

Or be reassuring about

that thing

neither of you

can yet

out loud say?

Here’s s…

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