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The Bull
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Tight shoes, a flashy outfit, the large sombrero,
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An outfit for actors not fighters.
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He paces back and forth
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Biting nails to the core,
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Reassuringly looks at his large spear
in hand,
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The last day?
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He hears his name called
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his cue
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Cold sweat drizzles down his forehead
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he mounts his horse who is swaying,
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side to side,
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snorting timidly.
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The bull fighter’s chest and stomach grinds
like gears,
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Not his first but always like the first
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He goes into the tunnel
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Here the stadium,
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He wears his veil of confidence,
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The gladiator greets his people
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He hears the thunderous roar,
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1000s of people,
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Their adrenaline pervading the arena
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His excitement dies as he looks,
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the Bull.
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Horns purposefully sharpened,
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knives.
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Large back muscles,
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steel.
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Pitch black and
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3200 pounds of fight and misery.
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He knows the violence too well.
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In the heart of the arena
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fighters join him.
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Clutching flashy spears tightly.
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They know the fight too well.
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The fight of no meaning
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except for the desire.
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The crowd’s
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excitement.
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The crowd’s
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yearning,
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the yearning for the violence
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the yearning for pain
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the yearning,
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for death.
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the restoration,
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of primeval desires
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This poem was inspired by the painting, Mexican Bullfight, by Frederic Remington