gilded monster

poems 1 Minute

©2022 Michael Raven

i'm pretty sure my
parchment-thin gilding
peeled right off
& your
bootblack fingernail
scraped jagged
ribbons
away away

what horrors
you found!

but you had
suspected
judged &
convicted
a monster
before veneers fell
to the dirt
anyway
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