Last Rites
by Allan Peterson

I dazzled the fly till it didn’t see the book
Take that, I think, for the too weak to move,
the sad-eyed children of Sudan.
Everyone likes vengeance so I could go easy on myself,
though that was not the worst of my murders.
In this one I used a book whose footnotes exceeded text, 
sometimes a half page of ibids and quotes 
from Latin promising to raise the baffled dead.

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