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O Mistress Mine
Raggedy Ann Red
hair in pigtails
and entangled up-dos
corsets and bustiers
platform shoes and
Shakespeare
balcony scenes and sword fights
Victorian. Industrial.
Industrial? Hardly.
Victorian? Modernized.
Romanticized.
smog and street lamps
Bubonic couture
worn on her sleeve
like a Whitechapel whore