Ugly Twenties

I was shocked and sad to hear / that your laugh had caught another ear
and the seeds that I had spread / entered in another bed and...
C Fold your face in a lie / Curry the favour of magazines
Weigh the words in a style / Reflects back well on yourself
Is it serious? An understanding? / A walk in ways that I can recall
in a memory that falls / Dark in parts and sad in total--C
Oh, talk and preen yourself / splash on colours and eternity
In the boasts that you tell / sleep fast in your media shell--C
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