Chances narrow that I'll make it

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Gen | for villsie | 100 words | 2022-12-07 | the lamb | AO3

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


loving, brilliant, above-all-terse
candid photo; short-side-of-a-hearse

(center attention, sociorbital ring, because the play's the thing's the thing's the thing)

smiling, beautiful, career competent
definiti-notationally-mundane hea-ven-sent

(go out to get out there, come out on stage; looks far too ugly, gone cold on the page)

ten-cent opinions on twenty-dollar girls
words that flow, wobble, whorl

(i'm brilliant, wonderful, precocious, a star; unreachable from absolutely wherever you are)

hatred-and-strife-and--hor-rend-ous--lies
love's the thing that makes you all pie in the sky

(you're dreaming i'm lovely and happy 'fore through, but you're not my keeper, so i can't say i loved you)