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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
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#932136 added April 5, 2018 at 10:51am
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
a sight tucked inside my occipital lobe:
skin showing
no wrinkles,
worry lines
cheap bargains
bad trades
tear stains
or that scar on the brow
when I fell

but the mirror spews forth
its capsized illusion
an old woman
heavy-limbed and slack
in half-hypnotized trance
cackling
at mishandled time

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Prompt: optical illusion
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