I tweezed

yesterday.

My patillas felt smoother.

I am tweezing
right now.

My moustache is gone
but my patillas have sprouted
so I pluck them again.

I will tweeze
tomorrow.

My unibrow will again be split
in two but my moustache and
patillas will have regrown so
they will be uprooted.

All while I eye my knuckles
and their thin, wiry bushes.

Magaly Garcia is from south-south Texas and she received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She finds muses in espantos and snow, and when she isn’t cussing, she is writing in the dark of her house. When she isn’t writing in the dark of her house, she is summoning fantasmas to haunt her cat and cactus.

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