Tag: violence
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…
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And out come the sharks
Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…