Here comes a Greek position
for the solitary practitioner
wanting to stand atop
a petrified cliff
nailed together with toothpicks.

A soldier may laugh in the face of danger,
but when I die
I’ll be laughing in the face of death.

Hades surely hates the living
black flag responsible for
white man’s death
a string of yarn tied to the slain beast’s horn
walk away slowly, woman
walk with intent to live.