By galadrial
Date: 2003 May 23
Comment on this Work
[[2003.05.23.10.23.29901]]

without a smile

So you're back again,
with a gentler nick
and dangling your bait
like the angler you are.
Smelled the cheap after shave,
read the same smarmy lines
wrapped in new colors
and the only thing that surprised me
is that you REALLY think
I would miss your moves,
when I had long enough to study them?
Christ.
Fish on, wonder boy.
I can't save the world from you
or your tin horn machinations
but let's not pretend for a moment
that I don't know who you are.
Leopards don't change their spots,
and old fish will keep the stink
no matter what paper you wrap it in.