Flabbergasted by visions of fame,
the full-figured puppet feigned victimization by a brute
nearly three times her age.
A victim—or merely a coy game of cat and mouse?
Some say the tempestuous fear vibrating through
the ribcage of his faithful wife—
merely
a heavier psychosis
and a warped view on her life.
Cementing herself to cracked,
hardened ground
wouldn't have shielded her
from the black tables spinning endlessly
in the room of her flaming suspicion.
The affair of a life time—supposedly.
An irresistible muse for portraits of almond eyes
and indiscreet noses.
Call it symbolism, call it irresistible inspiration.
Call it the jagged edges of betrayal.
**This poem was inspired by the marriage of Olga and Picasso and his torrid love affair with Marie-Thérèse--a girl who was three times younger than Picasso at the time.
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