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The Gravity of Her Nonreality

It was well half past the glass

when the very last bell sang

and atonal anvils fell

behind the curtain walls where

an eternal debutante

rang her hands and wept encore

having but once crossed her lines

of a thousand ten times with

real passions unmemorized

cast within her own rebuke

as the last tip she would leave

on the understudy's seat