A Rumble for the Regime: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

A Rumble for the Regime

In the Arena of Steelburg there fought
Two boxers, who, before bloodthirsty crowds,
And, in their corners, exacting trainers,
Each other beat from guide rope to guide rope,
And back again, across the mat, until,
At round’s end, when ring the relief bell did,
They sank, with battered bodies…