I dated a girl with very short hair
You could not run your fingers through it
I mean it was really short!
But she had beautiful long hair
captured in photographs in frames
she displayed in her home
I had questioned why she now kept her hair so short
She replied, as matter-of-factly as you could imagine,
“I’ve worn it this way for some time now,
so no one can beat me and pull my hair again”
At the café near the corner
I thought about her bravery
when she asked me if I liked lattes
as much as she did