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All those other kids anted me

to call them paladins,

warriors, saints, whose swords had names,

whose bodies were perfect

as ht

they’ve set up a township near my liver

had babies with the maidens they didn’t save

invented electric lightbulbs

thought up new holidays

You can have my body

just like you wanted

Or you can keep on fighting dragons

writing dragons

fighting dragons

re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch