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Demythologizing

The old man
I thought
was Zeus
was only
an escaped convict

the woman I thought
was Artemis
turned out
to have been
airbrushed

I once thought
I was a wood goddess
but it turns out
I’m just a west coast
wanderer.

◄ Harpoon

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