Undying by Michel Faber

Author:Michel Faber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books

You Were Ugly

You were ugly, at the end.

You knew it and I knew it.

Bald, bloated, piggy-eyed,

your flaccid arms bruised black,

your belly mildewed with malignancies,

your vulva and eyelids hairless,

your pupils crossed and sightless,

your breasts weighing down your heartbeat,

your bedbound body seventy-five kilos

of spoiling meat.

Now, choosing photos for your funeral,

I see again how beautiful you were.

How routinely, ravishingly lovely,

how graceful in the flesh,

how happy in your skin.

I called you Gorgeous at the end.

All lovers have names for each other

that are not their names.

Gorgeous was mine for you.

It wasn’t true,

in those days before you finally

let yourself go.

You knew it and I knew it.

You were ugly.

But not now.

Not now.

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