riddle in the bark

“plunder the innocent victims
              on the
    expensive watercraft”

it was a riddle scandaled into tree bark
with a bowie knife and a metalurgy inclination,
to tone it down would still be an embellished
byline in the journal Constitution

and that’s all I know about it. there’s nothing
else I can tell ya. I read the riddle just
like you did

that’s all I know
that’s what I know… it’s just a riddle that I
read scandaled in a tree bark

there’s nothing else I can tell you

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