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Wikipedia Poem, No. 970

why 

are
you  
  the poet  
      
you
are  
  the poet  
         
consequence 
        of   shit 

in love with the marauder 

heracles slept in his crate 
hera summoned snakes
the snakes moved without reason
heracles strangled the snakes
one by one by one