Scrap pile messiah

Hulking pile of tiger stripe debris, lightly spiced.

Miscellaneous components. A robotmaker’s scree

Oil-honking heavy sediment leftover from a long ago age of machines

Rudiments, parts which tallied compose pieces

Rat-proof, rust-dewed bones

Some promising Honour Roll student’s yesterday thesis

Belly-bent, shaped like a bowpart

Like an empty mound waiting to be filled by some pagan Bonaparte

Interned within, the undiffering bones of king, slave, foal and kin

Skinless with noisome din from Limerick-reciting golden coins

Who loathe being hidden, and always adopt vantage’s finest coigne;

To be found, to be the bedroll on which Glaurungs poise is their sole joy

An indifferent ship is razed

Scathed remainders in holes lain.

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