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She cleans her face with soap
And an avocado facial wash
Wipes with a Kleenex tissue and applies
Some moisturizer. She embellishes
Her lips with a titian lipstick
Cheeks with skin-toned blush
And darkens her eye lashes
With mascara.
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She will walk to her man
Waiting in the lobby of the Colombo Hilton.
With the flawless visage of Helen of Troy
The tender bosoms of Venus
The taut body of Hero
The naïve heart of Juliet
The overt beauty of Cleopatra
Taller than a heeled Geisha
Donning okobos on her feet
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And lets one man disfigure,
Every fractional woman inside of her
Every endearment about her
With love.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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