Defiance

Is Mercury a true messenger

to the Gods?

Or are spacemen pulling strings

from way up in their pods??


"I'm not answering"
he said
"we shouldn't be asking such things"

so I turned 
from my perch

having learned


not to listen to nobility,

even if they have wings...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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