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Booth Proud and Plain

  • Joanne Benedetto
  • Jan 20
  • 1 min read

At the same time both proud and plain,

And fashioned from worlds far away,

Unlike women shallow and vain,

Who at beauty can only play.

 

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The way they could not she saw things

For what they were, and did not hide

The sadness that this wisdom brings,

But turned away the times she cried.

 
 
 

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