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MOTECUHZOMA             I tried to bear up to necessity,             To steel self-conquest through my fears, and thus,              In stoic resolution, greet my fate.             But then this temperance, to the common eye,              Seemed but a fatalistic resignation,             A shrug, a sigh that what shall be shall be,             In abdication to a fancied doom.             So then I heap my irons in the fire             To undertake all means I can devise,             And now that versatile defense is seen             As paranoia, and hysteria,             The fickle indecision of a fool,             Who- like a pup between two bowls of food-              Would waver till the flyblown point grew stale.              And they are right, these forward serfs are right:             I am a knock-knee, and a juggler!             Who could foresee the vortex of my mind             Should be the whirlpool that would drain the sea?
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 2:06 PM UTC
The Floral War 2:8:114-31
MOTECUHZOMA             I tried to bear up to necessity,             To steel self-conquest through my fears, and thus,              In stoic resolution, greet my fate.             But then this temperance, to the common eye,              Seemed but a fatalistic resignation,             A shrug, a sigh that what shall be shall be,             In abdication to a fancied doom.             So then I heap my irons in the fire             To undertake all means I can devise,             And now that versatile defense is seen             As paranoia, and hysteria,             The fickle indecision of a fool,             Who- like a pup between two bowls of food-              Would waver till the flyblown point grew stale.              And they are right, these forward serfs are right:             I am a knock-knee, and a juggler!             Who could foresee the vortex of my mind             Should be the whirlpool that would drain the sea?
From my play in verse, thefloralwar.com
david-betten
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 2:06 PM UTC
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