The Thing Known as Him

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Whoever did it (we’d heard it was a lady),

we never will know: after she’d done it, she

cleared out her brushes and washes and paints

and proceeded to go – indeed, disappeared.

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Later we heard from somebody who’d heard

from somebody she’d died. Whoever she was,

she’d applied to the thing known as Him

varied hints of her decorous tints: deco pink

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here, and there, deco yellow, which caused

a stark change to come over this aberrant fellow.

Seen, before, only as unlovely chaos, whatever

this Him was, had clearly acquired a wink,

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a new touch of guile, a sort of wry smile which

altered Him’s former inapposite faltering form,

which now seemed to warm and set sail

like a suddenly interesting craft whose strange

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elegant angles arrested one’s eye, fore to aft –

destined to reach a new, welcoming shore.

Eyesore no more, Him discovered his place,

Him was no longer waste. Him was décor.

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