in the night a monster    a man

spiked with metal rods

walking    trancing his way

across the coals

 

that monstrous heat

 

but pain deterred    where the sacred

and the jostling crowds meet

 

the whole world begins to rock

like a school of fish    everyone

moves at the same strange pace

 

our faces scorched by heat

eyes ablaze in wonder at this feat

that should bring tormented…

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