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Julia Monaco is a freshman at Endicott College from Sandy Hook, CT. She is double majoring in International Business and Marketing, and has always enjoyed poetry and writing creatively.

Julia Monaco

Poisonous Elegance

She wore her booze like Chanel N˚5,

With elegance and passion.

She danced in its aroma.

The sharp taste of liquor followed her constantly.

The poisonous liquid sits in a large bottle next to her.

It was her passenger,

Her sidekick.

With it, she was invincible.

Monsters yelled to her:

“I don’t know who you are anymore”

She ignored the yells though,

She knows who she is.

Disapproving faces gawked at her

And as she raised the handle of Grey Goose

to her yearning mouth,

She gawked back.

The warm poison slid down her throat

Ferociously yet with grace, all at once.

The feeling consumes her,

And soon she is submerged in her elegance.

The monsters were gone

And so were the gawkers.

Time stops

And so

does she.

— Julia Monaco

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