Beauty Band-Aid

Beauty Band-Aid

Eshiemomoh Osilama, MBS
MD Class of 2024

Y’all heard???
They’ve got band-aids
with melanin
injected in them
now.
I couldn’t tell you how, but
WOW,
this shade of burnt-mocha-umber-brown
is lovely –
the perfect hue
to occlude the reds
and the blues percolating
under my skin.
Am I blushing!?
Guess, I’d never noticed
all these polishes, concealers, and blushes
bleeding towards this aisle
of the drug store pharmacy.

Ooh, and it’s giving!!
I, myself, have never swatched
a swathe or a swaddle of gauze so–
*gasp* well, whad’ya know?
The matte of this patch is
the perfect match!

Hmm…
this really has me thinking–
I’ve finally got a means
to beautify these
my Black
bruises,
but I would also suppose,
or
I mean,
at the very least,
ought it be assumed–
is this what they mean by
using a band-aid to cover up
a bullet wound?