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Chameleon Errant
Hitler's armored limousine on display couldn't be better not stuffed full with secrets and early blueprints and bombs This is all stiffness rigidity great reserves of preparedness The fear brain puts out its thoughts everywhere in the skin The air is a no-man's-land Moisture conducts secret messages In the Middle Ages knights rode out thus a-clank in armor and mail the same slow dull glint along the plates and scales The creature points its lance behind protectively You can see the skin take the sun and hold it appraise it Its shadow takes a first step then it follows Stand still in a war first Then you may take action All of this is clear in the chameleon's demeanor Its back a Maginot Line a Siegfried Line a tank trap Its head a turret turning bunker pillbox Normandy Two opposed-eyes sockets pockets right and left "Ready." "Ready." a flared cowl behind its neck like scanning radar