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Viewing platform
From a distant ship’s drip wet foredeck Allies straddling still the winedark sea, awaiting clearance Watch deathbringer Achilles reduce to scree Properties inside which Troy’s unfamiliar Gods linger. In lines are masterless fighters: Vast cannibal tribes barely upright, Hoplites with hex-imbued pilums. Skull-chipping the dart-accurate stones of peltasts and casters The dead left behind Their…
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Homeward Trojan
Years of siege, stalemate and tedious pause Leached away what raw feeling, what zeal, Dreamy Queen Helen’s theft ordained. Feral as spurned Hera, He emerges, so-called Hero From a rent tent wall, wine-rank, sword drawn Swearing he’ll kill them all, blaspheming both Greek and Trojan Gods. Terrifying because he is fearless Hearing the seeress speak…
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Brevity
Always shit to stir up Send violent wishes skyward Then usher my eyeless destrier away from the spiteful saltbite tide No stirrups, breast Burren bare and hairless still The ephebe who kills, the beech without leaves, In hopes that his violent, hope-raping deeds Will see his legacy exceed The briefness of his zeal’s chiefdom.
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Many metal statue
The moon, thought the prayer Had never before been paler Stormwinds tug at mole-depth pegs and nails. The four dead. The war dead arranged carefully like maze passages Spray. Damaged flesh shines like a sun-wearing bay’s flank The blaze he commanded made now emplaced; Rankening the lanky, flagless standards of that land’s farmers. Horses raised…
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Filthy minxes and lodge-protecting sphinxes
Lewis Carroll I’ve got puns Secret maths and depths to plunge Under, under, to a land of wonder Two brothers in the land down under Drug money, land of milk and honey Until the rug got pulled, they got sent under Their loud was loud as thunder Sudden raid, trap got plundered Yesterday got a…
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