Betrayal
written by: Michael Ball
@whirred
With glow and grin, she transforms
her suitors from men to long-tongued
dogs, devoted and eager to please.
They do all things she hints at wanting.
She has become Circe, although
she never does cast the swine spell.
When she keeps company with others,
her loyal dogs of course overlook that.
She betrays with her whole heart.
Sincerity is not an absolute virtue.
Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Satisfaction and feeling like a writer came through blogging and podcasting, mostly political. Born in OK and raised in rural WV, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. He joined the Hyde Park Poets Workshop two years ago, and will never again write a manual or help system. He has moderate success placing poems in print and online.
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