My smile meant nothing.

It was practiced to preserve

An impression of

Deserved ambition;

Just desserts; my achievements.

Is it worse if I

Felt nothing or I

Felt so much that my own fumes

Cut my oxygen?

 

By Imogen Shaw

 


Header image: ‘Kiki’ by cyberex

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