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The Banishment of Don Quixote (Free verse) by abecedarian
Lance broken
windmill shattered
a bloody pool of innocence
and Don Quixote cleaning his blade -
his cleft tongue newly born of
a snake's taste for blood
Cervantés' head held upright
by the only hand that remains true,
for the other has just committed an act
no author can leave unpunished - its dignity and honor as false as the
face of romance is to its nature.
There is now only murder
as the pen, dragged too deep i' the page in passion
destroys all beauty and substance therein
a depreciated legacy left forever unmended
as Cervantés surrenders his quill to oblivion
and stumbles away.
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