A Man

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Ahgreyeuss is visiting a university
                                                                     a courtyard
                                                      where there are no classes
fictitious students
Amid celebration      
he sits observing                                                      
          uncertain

He walks institutional
                                       hallways
visiting bathrooms
               looking for empty stalls
like grottos                                                                      

                a place of privacy

He climbs a narrow stair
and finds an old bath
                                                        claw footed       and brass
                                          with a courtyard view

But as he sits            he looks up and sees
            that he is visible here           from the third floor
and a crowd stares down bemused

There is a sparring man mocking
Ahgreyeuss calls him out
They meet in the courtyard
but just tell jokes

Ahgreyeuss finds Rakhehla
                          who hugs and kisses him
and thus fortified he goes off to war

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Curious                                          
Ahgreyeuss crawls upon the ground
to manifest terror
          to feel what it is like
in such peril

But he finds no bullets strike him
and so without danger he leaves
                                                                relieved

Still curious
                             he walks down a jungle road

A woman walking with him
                    becomes his fear
                                   screaming the horror
                                    at skeletal war victims

and turns into a man

They are seeking an abandoned war truck
to drive out of this jungle
and leave this war scene            

but when they find it                                               
they find also                                                   
                two adolescent girls
and a table nearby

And they would drive away
                  but this man wishes
                    to stay        Fearing
              his intentions
              for the girls
Ahgreyeuss grabs him
                                        picks him up
and carries him away
                                        to tie him harmless

But as Ahgreyeuss runs he looks at his burden
and becomes uncertain
if he is still Ahgreyeuss
or if he is the man
                                      or if he is one of the girls in his arms—

Soon they are all four alternating
                               and one      is always suspecting      another
of wanting
                              to carry off a girl
and take her                            

                                           on the table

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