Ars Poetica
A metal comb slides through wet black hair, steel teeth dragging translucent lice, their sticky eggs dripping from each strand like lanterns in trees tilting in the wind.
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Vivid imagery! I enjoyed it, even over breakfast.
Exactly! Having lived through this with my kids, grandkids, EXACTLY