ST DOROTHY
Who is this man
Cruel mouth tipped like a cesspit
To catch the unwary?
It is the Roman Inquisitor
Who takes flowers, accepts apples
From the sunflower-faced girl.
She tends her father’s gate
They argue and
He loses.
He jokes but does not forget.
They will meet again
At the World’s End.
Alysse Aallyn 
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