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Dressing Down, 1962

"Shalom," called the pink-shirted man in the Oceanic

Terminal of Heathrow, and I snapped,

"I do not want to talk to you." Manic

with fear, I extended one pointy-tipped shoe, tapped

the message home. My cases bulged with the wrong

clothes, every outfit trimmed with clipped

English, fit for telephone jobs on Long

Island. Rwanda, Algeria, and me

declaring every kind of independence.

My skirt and I were green, not the pretty

pistachio that Jacqueline Kennedy wore,

but the color copper develops in the sea,

cold and unfortunate, the green of storms

that have never squalled before. My hat,

gloves, and I were pale, not plush like the warm

blonde women settling in their seats

and bubbling dipthongs ...

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