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Lip Pointing With Radium Paint
It’s called lip pointing.
It’s fun. You should come work with us.
We get paid good money.
I was tempted. Not only was she my cousin
But Flo had a surreal prettiness about her,
A glow other girls did not have.
I wanted to be around her,
Everyone did.
She was the “it” girl.
Of course I said yes.
Learning the trade in gulps and blips.
I was good at it; I could do watches quickly.
You glow too! My mother said.
So proud. I was the new “it” girl.
Until I was no longer a girl at all
Rather a jawless thing
Thanks to radium which was more dangerous
than we ever believed
I was an “it” girl
who led her cousin Flo to the grave
All she had to do was follow my glow…..
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Caren Krutsinger
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