If it's a shock
keep it to yourself.
You haven't seen her in awhile
and now she appears like
a deathly apparition. Yes
she's smiling, she always does.
And it's genuine because she
genuinely is a lovely person.
All the more shocking
to see her visage with its deep
perpendicular runnels etched
distressingly in her still-young face.
Standing casually her husband
beside her they are as always
the well-adjusted couple yet
she has become vanishingly
less than she once was. It is
you know well vanity that dresses
her in tights and brief tops
and you wonder why a woman
of her age and stature is mired
in such insecurity and whether
before it's too late you might express
your concern or simply say the usual
that she looks like the cat's miaou.
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