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Foul Perfume

Hypocrisy 
is like a thin 
layer of scum
on the surface 
of an expensive 
perfume.


Its foul stench 
cancels out 
the celestial fragrance,
like that of corpses 
that your nightmares 
exhume.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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