To be a pair
you must be on a par
not just comparable
but equal, identical
twin, not a mirror
image that’s not
my me, not anyone
recognisable, not
me at all, no, you
must agree with
the real me that
the face you see
is not me, me,
please, not me
Looking Glass
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Great take on the prompt and a smiley surprise in the last line.
Is there a definite article missing in line 4? Or even an indefinite one?
No
Oh.
oooh – the plot thickens – so does that mean this is about identical twins????? I had taken it to be a bit sad originally – somebody looking in the mirror and not really liking themselves – but with the absence of a definite article/indefinite article that changes things – dah dah dah – which gets me back to the thought I have posted below against the prompt – when we go into reading a poem cold it is sometimes such a struggle if we don’t have a theme to hang our thoughts on – if we didn’t know the prompt for this poem would we get as much out of it as we do???? I can’t answer because I don’t know.
Exactly what Sarah says… identical twin is the addressee?