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# The Audition
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-audition/
- Published: 2023-01-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: "please, let nothing come between us" he says, grinning as a groom sitting, the prospective Venus -- she had led him to her room and now calculates the odds: one must pay to join the gods
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

"please, let nothing come between us"  
he says, grinning as a groom  
sitting, the prospective Venus --  
she had led him to her room  
and now calculates the odds:  
one must pay to join the gods