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Sonnet: Beneath the Castle Where the Giants Are in Love

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Sonnet: Beneath the Castle Where the Giants Are in Love

by John Kendall Hawkins
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Someone was busting Kafka's balls again --

day-glo graffiti smirking in the dark

he read by the light of a firefly spark

imprisoned in a jar, no trial. When,

where, why? Who are they? What was it this time?

Was it because of certain dark changes

he proposed one night on the Charles Bridge, ranges

of thought expanding the scope of Man's mind?

Whatever it was he wrote on the wall

of the bridge in the dark had brought disdain

to his reputation, he sought a name

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