Now I Am Bald

Now I am bald and

a fashionista by default,

as it was never my fashion

before

and no one followed me

but now, 

heads are shaved

as if following

in my footsteps,

following my trail 

of discarded hair

now lost 

with my identity. 

Now I am bald,

my head as naked as my fears

fears I can’t lose, 

fears unattached

while my hair is un-attachable,

filling the teeth of my comb,

and lying on my pillow

in tufts of terror.

Chemo does that -

forces me

to hunger

for my loss

forces me to follow

or face my fate

bewigged 

Now I am bald.

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