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Skeleton
Wes Viola
Everywhere we go,
they sit, grinning, behind all our masks.
Even the masks we were born with.
Grinning.
Your bones grin at me.
My bones grin back at you.
When we’re gone, they’ll go on grinning:
we’ll look like we finally
GOT THE JOKE. |
And isn’t there some comfort in it?
Knowing that I - you - we - every last one of us -
will have the last laugh?
Wes Viola is a pen name of Wes White. Wes is an Elder Bard of his hometown of Glastonbury, England; and now lives in London where he works in public libraries. His latest project is 'Thirteen Names for the West', a poem cycle inspired by representations of the Wicked Witch of the West in adaptations of L Frank Baum's Oz story over the last century and more. You can buy physical copies or digital downloads on a pay-what-you-want basis, and explore more of his work, at http://linktr.ee/wesviola