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   Tight shoes, a flashy outfit, the large sombrero,

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     An outfit for actors not fighters.

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     He paces back and forth

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     Biting nails to the core,

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     Reassuringly looks at his large spear

 in hand,

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     The last day?

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     He hears his name called

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     his cue

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     Cold sweat drizzles down his forehead 

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   he mounts his horse who is swaying,

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   side to side,

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   snorting timidly.

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   The bull fighter’s chest and stomach grinds

 like gears,

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   Not his first but always like the first

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   He goes into the tunnel

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   Here the stadium,

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   He wears his veil of confidence,

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   The gladiator greets his people

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   He hears the thunderous roar,

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   1000s of people,

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   Their adrenaline pervading the arena

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His excitement dies as he looks,

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   the Bull.

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   Horns purposefully sharpened,

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   knives.

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   Large back muscles,

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   steel.

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   Pitch black and

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   3200 pounds of fight and misery.

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   He knows the violence too well.

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   In the heart of the arena

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   fighters join him.

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   Clutching flashy spears tightly.

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   They know the fight too well.

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   The fight of no meaning 

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   except for the desire.

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   The crowd’s

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   excitement.

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   The crowd’s

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   yearning,

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   the yearning for the violence 

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   the yearning for pain

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   the yearning,

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   for death.

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   the restoration,

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             of primeval desires