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Nov. 5th

from That Towering Blue by James Wylder

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From "Blackalope".

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Nov. 5

Did your hand turn gunpowder black?
or was that the gallows with carrion hawks?
When the King Shored up the rope and its slack..
Old Guy Fawkes
With his trump and his mask
Did your hand turn gunpowder black?
to spit at a king to whom freedom was pox
the Devil and God both gave you the task
When the King Shored up the rope and its slack..
Shifting in shadows through Parliament locks
arm buried deep an in infernal grain cask
Did your hand turn gunpowder black?
had you any clue that while this crowd mocks
that future ones might call you a hero and bask
When the King Shored up the rope and its slack..
Kingdoms would rock with your face on their vox
waiting and cheering and screaming to ask
Did your hand turn gunpowder black,
When the King Shored up the rope and its slack?

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from That Towering Blue, released May 1, 2016

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James Wylder Elkhart, Indiana

Author of "An Eloquence of Time and Space", "10,000 Dawns", and "Cryptos."

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