Fear streamlined to elegance
and elegance made mute
within this skin of gunmetal
and gash mouthed grin. Repute
would have the monster cruel—untrue—
for mannerly cruelty
demands a heart, unwitnessed
in its calm machinery. |
| Published in Margie. Copyright © 2009 by Hailey Leithauser. Used with permission. All rights reserved. |
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