Shape Shifters

Whether a magician's trick
Or a plot device
I admire its usage

Mystique could do it easily in X-Men
She used it with gleeful malice
Odo on Deep Space Nine was more reticent
His weary face implied a burden

Nature or nurture
It's hard to know the derivation
I expect maternal misery is a factor
Or possibly existential angst

At this point of the game
Well into the fourth quarter
I've made my peace with it

Just like
It's hard to question the need for oxygen
That thing that keeps you alive

dg
7/28/15


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