cryptic and critical,

Covert and covered

With all of the layers of liars you've piled

Laying them one on the other around you

And making their mantle your cloak.

Compulsive, repulsive,

Insightful inciter,

A wilful menagerie of miscellany,

Mixing and merging the maudlin marauder

With shards of the mask that she broke.

Fragmented, augmented,

Revised, it compiles

To an unnatural sequence of notes,

Nicking and jarring, it steers through your hearing:

That vulgar, verbose way she spoke.