MY HERO
C Ra McGuirt
when i was a kid,
i thought rasputin
really fucking cool.
i mean, goddam:
they poisoned him.
he didn't die.
they stabbed him,
& he didn't die.
they kicked him down
the cellar steps,
& shot him. still,
he didn't die,
even when they
threw him in
the river,
& as he sank
through the ice,
he shook a fist
& cursed them
as he finally
died.
of course, this
was all before
i found out that
rasputin,
all three hundred
ugly unwashed
unrepent pounds
of him,
was screwing
the czar's
old lady,
& realized
that rasputin
was even cooler
than i'd thought.