The lasting work of blessed hands (pausing before a wall containing a thousand framed portraits of the owner’s hands, palms upturned, against paint-flecked black work slacks)

Only show respect to Aztec Gods

Flensed men, malevolent bats and giant frogs

You are low spec, floppy-ready

Still making shop trips to buy credit

Couldn’t install Age of Empires or browse the net

Closing the net, feeling spenny might drop a rack or ten, whole fortunes

In the back, more racks than a dungeon for medieval torture

Just rolled a four, scorched it

Now I’m crawling forth along the floor

What the serpent’s made to endure

I’m a doer, very dour when not smoking sour, sure

But I’ve got Dürer power

Dura power the bunny’s never tired keeps running for hours

I rack, God sighing

Iraq and Nimrod’s back just as defiant as last

Time

No such thing as the last line.

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