A mansion large with ageing facade
Parts assets from opulent past
To keep afloat of needs and shame
As men pray daily on tarot cards
Brothers estranged age, on liquor
Ghosted fortune, reflex nervous
A growing daughter, virgin beauty
Dreams on 'thout their airs morbid
Expends rebelliously, tasting
Her sexuality sensuous, emerging
Her elder brother is a vegetable, but
Unhappy, stressed, violent enough
To face his father and confront
Snatch the bottle from his clutch
The mother looks on with sunken eyes
Death daily, repressed, her polar night.
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