A contemporary poem about the wrong kind of beautiful, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The beautiful thing makes the room inconvenient. It blocks the cupboard and stains the morning. Guests call it striking. I call it difficult to live around. At last I shift it two centimetres. The house exhales. Beauty survives the move; so do I.
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