What Exactly ?

Can she trust him ? Her heavy-lidded eyes,

pouty lipsticked mouth, she has the redhead's

true pallor like skimmed-milk, damned good looking

and she guesses she knows it, but what exactly

has it gotten her so far and where ?

excerpt from

Joyce Carol Oates

"Edward Hopper's Nighthawks 1942"

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The Hopper Project
WNEP 2011
                              http://ghpoetryplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/nighthawks.html