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Murder

Creation is
a ritual of destruction.
The artist
murders the past.
Witness: Chris Columbus
paint the Americas.
Kill the Norse myths of the seas
when he mapped them.
Stuck his wooden cock
between virgin thighs.
Found dolphins
where mermaids should have been.
And were
until raped by drunken sailors.
Left to rot extinction
on rock islands.