With All Shame Gone

With all shame gone, pride of life's
Showy nobody
Now given that road, crassly loud
To crash and burn on

Discretion, of its silence
And its privacy
That old style mind of its housing
Now serves as bastion.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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