Pretty laughter rages
endlessly, brazenly
at my bitter expense.
Slavering dogs.
Society swigs from
its wine glasses, drunken
with bigoted zeal.
Yesterday’s favourite.
I’m numb and I’m no-one.
From this pale
moment, I slide.
Blatant backs
turning. Dismiss the
usurper, no longer
welcome. Faded star.
Paint me like
butterflies. All in
a day’s work I’m done
and I’m dusted.
Cocoon me gently.
All that you loved
in me, take and
preserve a while.
Slender worm slinks,
seeks refuge,
blindly seeks out what
she came for.
Back where I
started. Gartered and
innocent. There’s
no place like home.
