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Epitaph of a Beautiful Tyrant

Posted by Prester John Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM

Who will mourn
the butterfly
smashed against the
window pane?

Who shall grieve
the monarch dead
ended early
in her reign?

The graveyard moths
imps of commerce
do they fret
or feign?

 

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