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I dove like Gilgamesh
Into the deep
For the youth plant
The one that got away
The snake shed its skin
Thousands of years ago
Thousands of miles
From great-walled Uruk
Would this happen to me?
Would I forget the gift
Lay it on the ground
To be snatched in a flash
Like youth itself?
There is no suspense
To the journey
We know how it ends
But we act as if
This time
Because it’s me
And not that fool Gilgamesh
Everything will be different
—by Douglas Pinson
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