Nailpolished

Holly’s school art project—an old bathtub that had been painted with daisies and avant-garde designs—squatted in the comer, its nailpolished lion’s feet gripping the cement floor in defiance.

Give me some helpful hints on what revolutionary cleaning agent could make the women on the corner break into bloom again, rinse the bum’s mouth with rosewater, straighten and anoint those gnarled, nailpolished claws?

ruby nailpolished fingers obscure the word PYNCHO

He smiled as her yellow nailpolished toenails blinked in and out from under the hem of her gown.

The Rakhine family’s eccentric transvestite servant, in iridescent sarong and frosted lipstick, would sashay out with the tea tray, proffering the biscuit plate with his nailpolished right hand and a bow.

I used to think I was giving society a big ol’ black-nailpolished middle finger as I would strut down the streets in my Docs and torn fishnets.