VIKING
when a Viking
turns the
other cheek
it’s to show you
the humongous scar
where the spear
went through
and let it not be said
that Vikings lack forgiveness
many a crazed Viking
has stayed
his hand somewhat
dealing out death
with much softer blows
lacking a poetic culture that
would civilized certainly
and thus unable
to write
their side of
the story
I therefore on their
behalf appoint myself their
spokesman to the
rest of us
ordinary, somewhat
shocked and
non-comprehending members
of our species
since I am no Viking, or
by my reckoning, as
much as half
clearly isn’t
poems 2 die for 