Delphi tells new people she meets
they wear the face of God.
Those people who see
a demon in the mirror
choose not to believe her
for at least ten hearings.
It is only after the twelfth time
a crack in their marble facades
appears in the faintest
glimmer of a smile
that the unassumed dare
might contain an ecstasy.
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