[SEPT 28] [ORIGINAL] THE EMPEROR OF SORROWS

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Title: The Emperor of Sorrows
Day/Theme: September 28: ‘I'm the emperor of sorrows'
Series: Original
Rating/Warnings: G.

The emperor of sorrows comes across the night

With iron hands and a maidenly umbrella

Sharp as green-sickness.

He scents out boarding houses

B&Bs

Dyed rosebuds in thick heritage porcelain.

He gathers up green grass that shows black under streetlights

And the orange stain on old ice-lolly sticks.

He offers a precise understanding

Of legatees and VAT.

In the morning he is gone

Leaving a soft mint on the pillow.