Dragon Blood
He sits
on the edge of the world
unconcerned with the
dissimulation of
polite society
busy little bee's
bouncing off reality
living the dream he
so valiantly fought to protect
he sits there quietly
saturated in urine
manufactured of
white port fueled
by
memory of war
contemplating
nothing
invisible to most
But still
a blight upon their sensibilities and
a horrid fright to the eyes when seen
cold hungry and shivering
they could give a shit to his welfare
they cogitate his insanity
his own undoing
and that smell
the smell of death
lurking waiting to pounce
on yet another of society's outcast
putrid sores
covers flesh uncovered
where gnats and flies feast
and maggots dine beneath the skin and
his breath
his breath smells of Dragon Blood
do we even know what Dragon Blood is?
apparently he does
two tours in Vietnam
and a Purple Heart for bravery
yet he sits on the edge of the world
bravely trampled underfoot of apathy
absent of coalition
he wishes
only to be left alone
to dance in the pain
of degredation
and waltz in the face of death
until God calls him to reckoning
he will sit there
on the edge of the world
listening to
the mundane idiocracy of those
who wander by
left to his own maundering
invisible that is
until
the Olympics
come to town
For those on the streets who has been cast out - and forgotten.
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Submitted by Odonko-ba on January 12, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xAxbcxccx cdbxex ffxghx fi cf xjxx xxxhjx kx xc acd kx xdjf iAxxe fk gxx d |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,284 |
Words | 240 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6, 6, 2, 2, 4, 6, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 5, 2, 3, 1 |
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