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Book 14 Page 40

Painted face

Some say he is a hard man to know,

that he has a ‘painted face.’

But I think his face is painted with varnish

and I see straight through him.

He is a scoundrel and not to be trusted.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 22/3/00