Contributor: Wisen Erlach

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I look into the eyes
of all the women
who aren't you
who seem a piece of you
somehow
in the eyes
in the distracted
vaguely irritated gazes
the faces
of disinterested
long dead models
who carry all the elegance
and vague hatred
I've seen
in your own eyes
in the lines
that divide white from white
the lines
that get deeper
and deeper
with every passing year


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