I found a stocking under the bedside table
one of those knee-high ones that aren't real stockings
and cast no glamour
shed shrivelled
like a tiny proboscis
in that corner
where it crumpled
among some bits of glass from something broken
with the dust of her skin in the gauze
jules bulman
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