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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Other · #890937

The prom queen's secret.

Beneath hiked taffeta,
blood, tried to deny.

Dismay, shock and
one tiny cry.

Unheard over laughter
and thumping music.

Swaddled and disposed,
in trash piled thick.

A dirty secret kept,
perhaps – maybe.

The prom queen
abandoned her baby.
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