Poetry: Neglect - by Mortimer

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by Mortimer

Created on: February 25, 2009

You wear neglect
Like a negligee,
Projecting all
Your faults and fancies
Under sheer lace
Covering breasts that
Swell and sway,
Never nurturing
Another human.

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