Thursday, March 22, 2012

First Man


They called him The Man,
He had to be monogrammed.
They- for he had none,
none his own, no name given.

Fixedly singular
A Thousand and Forty-nine,
The man trudged into The New Cosmos
With Arrowheads and Hand-axes,
A perfect stranger.

Hair coiled on this head
He took with him to his playground-
A bow and a quiver of five arrows, 
Tobacco, Three rings
And flakes of stone.

A Hundred and Eight
Praised by struggle
Devoted to
a civilization 

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