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Heteronym Man
He calls Earth “Terra antiqua”
  Like the boy wasn’t born here like
  He never subsisted as an embryo in the hollow
  Of his human mother
  He calls Earth “Terra antiqua”
  Like he’s never seen it up close and
  Has not walked along any latitude of this place -
  Only sees in 2D
  He is a more of a spider really
  Sporting his cartoon eyes of eight -
  Each set fully fleshed out with a biography
  And an elementary school where they discovered
  the flippant lifespan of boyish love
  Everyone else is made up of elbows and elastic skin
  But the Heteronym Man lives as a house
  For his creations - he is made up of doors -
  The insides of him have been scraped clean
  He has moved out of his own body
  And if Shylock should ever ask him
  “Do you not bleed?!”
  There is talk in the streets that he would reply
  Only is silence
  Nothing is concrete and it makes it so
  his strange life can be adorned with nothing more
  Than commoners speculation
  Pathological liar, wicked tongue!
  Alien, imposter!
  Non compos mentis man!
  That or he is more human than the rest of us -
  Not afraid to say that he wants it all

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