CHEQUERED SHIRT

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That shirt was never meant for public

That chequered red T-shirt

Red or black, can’t be sure,

It was forever worn underneath something else

Like everything else we weren’t meant to see

The others must have spotted it before me

But like me were already too weak to warn me

Of all the stealth

All the play

And all the hurt

Underneath all his calm and charm

Thus for too late was I left to perceive

The blood in the red, shadowed by the black.