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Knights and Squires

from Call Me Ishmael; volume 4 by Patrick Shea

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Chapter 27: Knights and Squires

Bumbling nobility paired with strength
Provides a might without right, Oh!
Led underestimating the majesty,
The gravity facing us.

How could I breathe
A little of each nightmare
Sighed in all dying breaths?

God of the air
Medicated with camphor,
Block miasma of empathy.

Stout, Earthly travesty led with ignorance,
The dirt in its fearlessness.
Never to feel the depths, even
Face to face, all sublimity wasted, Oh!

Nothing to move
The mountain of your violence,
Even battering waves!

Man of the world,
Yet braced against the influx
Of our tremulous days.

Rally the backs,
The strength of every island
Pitched at banners of eloquence.

Only the wretch,
The touch of something deeper,
Will be graceful on high.

© and ℗ 2010 Patrick Shea

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from Call Me Ishmael; volume 4, released January 1, 2010

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Patrick Shea Brooklyn, New York

Patrick is a nerd, a book lover, a math afficianado, an Ishmael, and an Ahab. He lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. He grew up in Portland, OR; and has also lived in Grinnell, IA (for college); and Austin, TX.

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