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# 96 Pages
- URL: https://modus.ghost.io/96-pages/
- Published: 2025-05-06T02:51:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-06T02:51:57.000Z
- Author: Zoe Branch
- Tags: Poetry & Fiction

Forgive me your honor   
I was hoping you might look me   
in the eye and deem my faith   
 good  
might see that I wasn’t always   
the chosen son but ended up   
righteous somehow at the helm  
of this empire. I swear I’m not sure

how it happened   
this leads to that and really   
your honor I just did what he said   
the only child to attend   
his fifth wedding. Oh god

oh your honor   
I thought you might   
understand all this   
might see how heavy   
the weight / how intense   
the pressure / might shrug   
at the truth bent   
like so many people do 

because listen:   
I was shaped at the feet   
of the kingpin and who can   
blame me for wanting   
to sit on the throne? 

Mr. Gorman  
your 96 pages have damned me   
when that crown falls  
to a life spent lonelier,  
siloed as a traitor to the bloodline

tail tucked   
bluff called   
cards turned up.