from the mausoleum

decay hums,

no spotlight betrays

eminent limbs aquiver with

star-struck worms

anonymous in entropy, iconic

bones emerge, butterflies from a

chrysalis, gangling in moonlight

they'll never see,

disarticulated by

microbes, where perfume of araby nor

mysore silk mitigates dissolution

beauty falls far,

ful red lips to vacant skull.

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