(revison)
Picture a scene:
Two young women prepare to go out for an evening.
One sharpens her lips with the blood red whetstone of her lipstick
The other restraining straps of her black sandal armor.
The mirror watches the way one whips a scarf over her shoulder and bats her eyelashes
Like a master of a blade practicing drills before battle.
One lays out four pairs of earrings on the table, weighing each with merrits, deliberately and methodically, the other weighing in over her her shoulder, in between styles of scarf tying.
The scarf tied, the hair is next to move, one of the most vital allies in the night to come.
Out come a turtle shell clip, a hair tie, and an armada of bobby pins,
All ready and willing to assist the hair with a complicated up-do maneuver.
The women pray to the goddess of war, Aphrodite, with their rouged lips and their
Glittery eyelashes. They pray for victory.
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