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Rated: ASR · Poetry · History · #751172
Probably not destined for a travel brochure, but I'd love feedback on it all the same.
The road to Versailles is strewn with trunks,
broken-limbed and lifeless.
The storm hit hard.

Inside the faces of the dead
maintain marble indifference;
scenes that never were
captured in oil and canvas,
the ghosts of satin words
poised upon stone lips.
In the garden faceless automatons
slice nature with their
cookie-cutter form.

Still the Hall of Mirrors hangs serene,
offering a glittering infinity of one,
while in the distance
falls the shadow of a blade.
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