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<p>yaa gyanfuah of brown smokey eyes mascara <br>on a long wear easy foundation<br>and<br>a brown shadow pencil drew a thin line beneath her lower lip<br>if only yaa gyanfuah had applied intensive skin concealer, the ones called kings of the booth<br>she would have hidden yesterday on her face<br>and she would have looked much like angelina rose,<br>the american beauty idol whose life was<br>neither rosy nor angelic. <br>rose carried scars beneath heavy makeup to her long cold grave.</p>



<p>too often slander ladies <br>in petite blouses like yaa gyanfuah<br>summarize their stories in their ringtones<br>a boy calls them and the screen <br>becomes a blank page, they look but don’t see<br>they try to fix their faces in restaurants’ menus <br>pointing dishes like cursing the names of<br>all the boys who’ve stabbed them in the heart</p>



<p>when yaa gyanfuah threw her eyes on the mirror walls of the restaurant<br>she saw the debris of what was love on her face<br>she smiled and whispered to an innocent boy<br>who sipped a fruit juice at the far corner of the restaurant<br>love must hurt like a man screaming his mother’s name in a fire.</p>



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love must hurt (a poem by Oppong Clifford Benjamin)
