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Rated: E · Poetry · None · #2350489

Sometimes when we look in a mirror, it looks back

Mirror—mirror





the reflective undercoating

chipped away

years ago

leaving

patches bare

naked

unmasked

the ugliness inside

stared back

and i

who only wanted

to comb my hair

cried
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