The Gift

Well, what do you know?
The hero limped
From the prophet’s mouth
Mortal and fragile

Quivering like a mouse
Who’d been
Scorched black
By the ragged breath

Of some dragon
Go ahead
Look for yourself

There he is–running
Out of his legs
Into this empty theater

And (God have mercy)
Up my crooked spine.

 
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