Venice

Venice

Venice is a girl too
Beautiful for her own good.
The grandmothers who gossip
In windows hanging laundry
Say it would have been better
Had she been born with some flaw —
A nose a little too big,
Or something off with the mouth.
They agree that it's a shame
She turned out so perfect. 
They’ve seen the way the boys
Watch her walking on water.
Beautiful girls suffer more.