-And this is how you’ll always find us<\/p>\n
after Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/p>\n
The day was dark and futile<\/p>\n
My heart a wrecking ball<\/p>\n
John resting in the loo<\/p>\n
Overlooked and looking<\/p>\n
for a second point of view<\/p>\n
This is how she found us<\/p>\n
the past draped about us like a cloak<\/p>\n
Maria with her eagle eyes,<\/p>\n
her boa floating by like smoke<\/p>\n
No doubt about her energy<\/p>\n
we were the guilty two<\/p>\n
And she, a nose for trouble<\/p>\n
especially that which she could use.<\/p>\n
She was no goddess, surely<\/p>\n
more a ghost of days gone by<\/p>\n
An actress of the ages<\/p>\n
of a world not yours or mine<\/p>\n
And in our catatonic fugue<\/p>\n
She used us as a host<\/p>\n
Taking both the shadows<\/p>\n
And the past hid in our cloaks<\/p>\n
We were the first of many<\/p>\n
Victims of her ego<\/p>\n
And this is how you’ll always find us<\/p>\n
If first of course you find us<\/p>\n
Before you too feel the knife<\/p>\n
Of that immortal vixen<\/p>\n
And taste the futility<\/p>\n
Of a past entwined with hers<\/p>\n
The dawn of the last intrepid<\/p>\n
Breath you’ve yet took<\/p>\n
The morning that she took us<\/p>\n
And our home became her rook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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