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Protector #2 Your Personal Amulet

This sonnet is your personal amulet

To be worn in instance of need

Or constantly held in the mind

Occurring here and elsewhere at this moment

This sonnet is sent without cunning

To cull a particular phrase from your lips

To enlist another protector

In this age of malcontent benefactors

Against an ironclad schooner

Feudal kingdom

Dismemberment by jubilant crowds

Strangely indifferent faces

Heat and dust besides

Suicide implicating others

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