SISyphus

              actually

was led to think Sisyphus

the random capital letters at the head of each piece

such as it did begin SIS

                    S  strange  I  its  S  she  F  felon  S  Stephen  A  aestivation  F  from  I  its

quick glance SISFSAFI  blocked letters stacked atop each other 

S

I

S

F

S

A

F

I 

    looked like SISYPHUS

once King of Ephyra

                       forced by Zeus to roll a rock fortunatelyrounded uphill  only to watch at days end it roll back down

    any task of extreme effort  ultimately futile    endless

he

      actually

revered Sisyphus determination his grit

a fellow student in the School of Hard Knocks

fellow doing things the hard way because

                                                  if it is easy

anyone could

    he wasnt anyonewouldnt  be anyone

probably why many friends called him it caught on once one of them opened their mouth

                                                                                                        called him sigma equal to alpha male   chooses to sit outside the hierarchy

somebelieving themselves funny  on occasion  called him smegma

                                                                        he reminded them how fortunate they were he considered them friends

What? You’d beat me?

    Senseless

 

he did not bestow nicknames

                                called people the name they told him they wanted to be known as

James than Jim

Richard than Rick or Dick

                                  one arrives at Dick historically Medieval times  Twelfth Thirteenth centuries  rhyming nicknames  Rick Dick

William than Bill

Bob than Robert

    a form of respect so he believed

and when he believed

                         no one could knock him off his belief                                                       

    School of Hard Knocks

1152,  Thursday,  9  10. 25

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