CLEANSE
CLEANSE
If you press your face against a scanner
and close your eyes
and make several passes against the pink of your skin
you will notice many imperfections you had never given much thought to-
like how many tiny black spots there are sunken into your nose and cheeks.
And if you are like me,
you will wonder how so much dirt collected in there in the first place,
for you are not a very dirty person,
or haven’t considered yourself dirty
since you were in high school and had contests with your friends to see how long you could go without taking a shower.
And if you are like me
this will remind you about how you lost a contest like this
to someone whose girlfriend broke up with him because (she told her friends) he smelled bad.
And now you will think that even though you lost,
Maybe you won a little bit too.