Work Text:
unintelligible gibberish left her mouth,
something broken behind shutters of misty blue.
hiccups, chokes; o lovely marionette
made for the world to see – horridly inverted now
that her world was but one woman
o sweet puppet! dribbling madness as
the taller woman eyed her; dissimilar
to the look a mother would give to
her infant drooling onto the floor.
so these words pooled on her chin,
dripping wet streaks onto the carpet;
wiped off by the steady hand of
her Lord.