What Consolation

How did the cake taste? Be

done now with these

jewels, macaroons, waltzing tunes.

There is no more consolation 

in a rose garden. It never belonged 

to you, nor that head of yours. 

Famous hair gathering in sheets and sheets: 

silver glue sticking to your neck.

Slice.

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You made it too easy for them.

Or was it their Louis?

They taught you it was yours:

deceived you in a silken dungeon, 

the children were left to the 

stinking streets, mildew growing

on their unused lips and tongues.

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Robespierre gave you the last reality.

A new reign set in, sixteenth

Sun gone. The guillotine bares its teeth.

Your skirt’s embroidery unraveling.

No roses. No rococo. Pull the rope. 

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