Tonight's Poet Corner: Flawed Character

Flawed Character
by Belinda Roddie

You may be an asshole, and
you'd be intolerable to talk to

in person, and I'd never take
tea or mead or the blood

of my enemies with you,

but I still appreciate your

presence in black on parchment,

where your sneer radiates

from the print, but it never

becomes more than

two-dimensional in its

gleam or its venom.