Sunday, February 2, 2014

5009. MY CARNIVEROUS BUMPSTER


MY CARNIVEROUS BUMPSTER
Eating the waves of the cauldron, like the sea
on fire, the ships all burning their woods and sails,
the tall masts of Lebanon now floundered  -  some
thirty thousand men have died on this endeavor.
Like reading Gilgamesh, a hunk of massive story
based on Mankind's width, we realize too soon too
late just what we are; men of stature, but lost as
Gods. Those, as us, who cannot live forever, wilt.
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Death is not the end, but then neither is Death
the answer. I know not either of the categories
flatly well, yet I see enough to know the way I need
to travel : straight up, not hunched, with a pack of
 gold upon my back. Brigands and night thieves
will try to steal from me, I know; but I shall never
let them. Steadfast and stern, I stand alert.
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My heart is in the fields, and my honor is not the Devil's.

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