Interview with a Mirror
by chicker2
Reception, deception, conception, reflection (reflexion)
Criticize, oversize, otherwise, disguise
Lips, hips, toss the chips, these trips
break, take, make, for heaven’s sake
Look, in the book, find a nook, crook shook
Race, pace, face, replace, encase, erase
Pain, swimming brain, drain, feels like rain, crane
over the sink, pink, stink, be the link
between, unseen, careen, serene, I mean this scene,
it’s here, my career, tear, steer, near the year
of eviction, conviction, addiction, can’t function at the
junction where it’s wrong + right; fight, I bite, go fly a kite
way out of sight into the night. quite
so, show, foe, mow, beau, low, to know is to grow, tomorrow
the latter will shatter, and clatter, does it matter? the
shards scatter over the cards, bards, shout for yards. a
hand, screams a demand, reprimand,
take the land by a force right on course, show
no remorse, from the source because a certain
gland, held together by a strand, so bland it’s
planned to flood, blood, like mud, how does it
feel? to see skin peel, reveal, something real
no deal if I steal away and kneel, lift up
a prayer, is anyone there? I hate my hair, it’s not
fair, no care, just bare right where
smile, mile, Queen of the Nile, crocodile perched on
a stile, that’s vile, while
away, hey, stay, okay, you may, one day, not
black and white but gray, see a ray through
jeers, leers, cheers, fears, beers, dears, ears
queers, seers, rears, and peer into the clear
beyond the mirror.