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Red was her Color

 

Red was her color

Bold and tall was she, in love with the world

Her vitality expressed with vigor and precision

Though dismissed by many as egregious.

Dipped deep crimson red lipstick being her signature

 

Red was her color

An ambitious, intellectually rapacious woman was she

Burning with rage and genius, no man ever understood her

She felt too ordinary, too strange

Blazing jaunts and exquisite haunts a façade

 

Though red was her color

She was a conventional puritanical practical girl

Her quill assumed a bolder character

An expression defying a maze of signifiers

Often breaking down stereotypes

 

Red was her color that was ripe and alive

Her fiery image never vampy though complicated for the era

She rebelled against conflicting signals

Through an announcing shout of her visual signature

Red was her color

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