Zahra Gordon

I know it’s January 21st, but HAPPY NEW YEAR! For my first post of the year, I’m picking up where I left off on the Haiku from the Headlines series. While checking my e-mail yesterday, I came upon this article in the New York Times archives from 2002. Poem and link to article below 🙂 

Is beauty the thing, 

cultural currency lost,

making slim trendy? 

Article: “Lagos Journal Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy”