7040

Though Ursula is supposed to be shown 

With all eleven thousand virgins

Who were martyred with her

No one ever fits in more than six hundred 

And three. While every virgin

Looks like all the others, 7040

Is painfully aware that not once

Has she ever appeared. She tries 

Not to think about it but her friend 

8009 -- who has appeared 43 times 

In paint, plaster, polychrome and ink

And came very near to a featured role

In a print reproduced by the thousands --

Thinks it is unhealthy to sit polishing

Ones halo until it has edges as sharp

As a carbon-steel razor.