Desecrating Hector’s corpse

Bareback riding the mightiest piebald

Once owned by Scythian tribes

Scared inside, the rebel tribes

Send him out. The devil is arrived,

I am come to claim my prize.

Beat Hector in a one on one trial

Now I’m doing circuits of his city

His severed head divested now of princely circlet

His dragged and dirtied body leaking from a thousand hurts

Eyeless, the last picture worth a thousand words this sword of mine

Whirring toward the splintered handle of the strongest steel in Damascus.

Circling Troy’s walls three times, Priam’s face grief-masked

Steaming tears wine-dyed.

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