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would hold</p><p id="bde2">Me high in victory, or bury me–</p><p id="9f00">I would be proud to call them</p><p id="4bdf">friend.</p><p id="69d0"><i>– The Texas Dog Poet</i></p><h1 id="aeae">The Curation; Write For Our Publication:</h1><div id="d4ff" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/marches-of-gold"> <div> <div> <h2>The Curation</h2> <div><h3>Might I entice one to a precious center of adoration for Words; A Publication; A Curation — May the semblance of…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*CNez-URdswtGe35E17I8ng.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="7867">The Fine Writer Of This Piece:</h1><div id="0040" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/@texasdogpoet"> <div> <div> <h2>Gary Orphey - Medium</h2> <div><h3>Read writing from Gary Orphey on Medium. Every day, Gary Orphey and thousands of other voices read, write, and share…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*finOHbSzJZYGTqdm)"></div> </div>

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It was a strange night

A Poem; Selection I, Of The Curation

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Words sputtered from my mind

Like pieces of chain-mail blown

From the mouth of some

Ancient cannon, burning,

Sputtering, catching fire;

Roaring from my madness with

No direction, a chaotic

Shrapnel of words taking flight

Into the void of night.

I was the eloquence of Cyrano

de Bergerac, the stumbling

Ineptness of Stanley Kowalski

Rolled into one; a moth-eaten

Blanket trimmed in gold

Brocade.

Nothing could stop me. Not

Iron, steel, manmade link, or

The carcasses of those before

Me who failed –

Damn them, damn death,

damn the obstacles underfoot.

Sensing destiny, determined,

I would ride full-tilt into it like

Don Quixote; and if there was a

follower, a believer, a Sancho

Panza type who would hold

Me high in victory, or bury me–

I would be proud to call them

friend.

– The Texas Dog Poet

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The Fine Writer Of This Piece:

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