Stack the wood like a bagworm caterpillar,
shambling, spiked castle,
and emerge with an axe
and eight-foot wings to carry you to your prey,
your legs, a mess of wooden spears
to spindle-stomp a landlord,
one impaled to each of your knees,
scale buildings and pick CEOs from behind jeweled windows
and paint murals in the streets
with the splats they make.
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