POETRY

villain to villain

nonperfect & nonexempt from judgement

Tonja E. Betts
2 min readAug 22, 2022

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Photo by Patrick Collins on Unsplash

we each the villain in someone’s tale…
dead vermin in some mem’ry’s jail.
by ev’nin’s drowse, the sole that weighs —
is all-caps-Judge’s ending-bell.

we all the rogue in satire’s eye…
mere breath appears to qualify.
a pinch…

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Tonja E. Betts

Scrabble addict, enthusiastic tea drinker, perfume bottle collector, Prince music lover, poesy paronomasia-ist, happy mom.