Carbon Copies.
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©-MFB III
They all lie under
the tragedy of lost forever,
their differences dissolved
into so much rot.
Where beauty is
but a memory
and ugliness matters little
when all are rendered to bone....
Marilyn Monroe looks just like
any local wallflower who never
married and died an old maid.
Both the humble
and the rich compost
becoming the same soil
which eventually
is absorbed into
lovely flowers and trees.
Nature wastes little
in her grand plans.
All that remains are the dull
self-same bones that eventually
crumble into nothing but dust.
What once was physical
becomes metaphysical.
Be yourself, forget what others think
eventually they will be just like you.
Equality is granted to all in the
rigor mortised grins of death.
