To scare men
       

wear your neck
without necklaces

wear your ears
without earrings

wear your wedding
without wedding rings

women, no makeup.
without paint on

without mending
with four lives on

with four parents
without hair styled

with no sorries
with no toggling

with no begging
without amending—

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