- Vol. 03
- Chapter 06
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Image by Michael Salu
Becoming
Monochrome child, once peach-perfect Skin, hides the flaws no parent sees Sin embedded, embryonic Waiting to hatch, scratch Crack the façade of dutiful obedience In a brief blaze of independence Which, all too short, is forced Back into traditional mould, Becoming a cardboard cut-out A Stepford Wife, dismissed As a woman of no substance