he was ironworked

black feet planted firmly in the earth

legs and thighs tensile stanchions supporting the array of his agilestacked spine and

stalwart crossbow shoulders
                               supporting  perched atop this massed erection  a bony skull 

his perceptive and cognitive watchtower

which beheld the green sweep of the surrounding fields their flanks of hills and trees

and watched the shepherds who ran from themselves

manually wrought

strapped tight by DNA  RNA

forged by strands longdead  though sprite and turbulent  contained in the loins of his mother and father
who divvied out  unremarkably   the materiel he would eventually be composed of

we are the rawest of crapshoots
                                  the vigorous shakes of die of untold facets

faces no one could draw or possibly lay odds to and no green visored oddsmakers would dare lay or take

and like he  a sculpture cast in a one-of-a-kind organic mold

a hot spasm of semen

the clutch of a hot receptive ovum

one distinct splash of magma hurtled into a blue atmosphere  twisted and spun  and fused congealed  fecund

perhaps  the single advantage he perceived

an advantage he never lost sight of

or questioned

or maligned

he was nourished fed watered and provided for

his existence was evidence

his strength and prowess was evidence

unfortunately he also witnessed other forms of evidence which did not flourish as he  
and his regret  an unmitigated regret  was their malnourishment 

when it didnt have to be

when they were robbed or stripped of it
                                          in sharpwhite broad daylight

without warrant

happening simply because it was deemed or wanted when they yet hadnt the means to defend themselves from it

later he heard it defended
                              This is a dog-eat-dog world

but he was far too straitforward too combative
and understanding the black bitter reveal he countered
                                                           I am not a dog  And neither is anyone else

but what really waft in his brain to the insolent remark was  This is a god-eat-god world

he did not believe in gods

They could eat themselves and leave the rest alone

1813,  Sunday,  14  7. 13