One True Tree: Cantos V-VIII

Narrative Verse

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One True Tree: Cantos V-VIII

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

V

His sword he had lost, that water-logged hare,
In the ocean he thrashed, and gasped for air;
The cold him assaults, if not for his hide,
His organs would freeze and shatter inside.
That vigilant squid did not let him rest,
But with cruel pinches his readines…