he looked like a big dog
he barked
like a big dog
I was
suitably unimpressed
I’d
forgotten to be afraid
somewhere
along the line
I had shed that
fear
and the air
of casual violence
that once
served to mask it
strange how
we forget our chains
only to
recall their chaffing
in the occasional
moment
of ritual
confrontation
how could I
ever have dismissed
the memory
of bondage
and a
lifetime of enslavement
to my petty tyranny?
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