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That Horse


Every scepter, every throne,

reverts again anew

 

The god’s, their will divided,

in Iliads of truth

 

All wars of good intention,

paved avenues to hell

 

Honor shamed by Zeus renamed

—that horse where judgment dwells

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

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