Gestures things so lapidary
Over this granite
Planet?
If he won’t sell the shoes (coquettish,
He’ll tease, Is that your fetish?)
The thing to get is his
Pètasus—
The woolen cap or doughboy helmet
(Oh-so hail-fellow-wèll-met!)—
And if you see his
Caduceus,
We’d like that too.—Look for an angle.—
Whatever you can’t wangle
From old Quicksilver
Pilfer.
 Kletic Inventory
Thief-god, famous in hermeneutic circles,
Inventor of the lyre and father of liars,
Patron of gamblers, travelers, flash-powder miracles—
Smuggler-of-Priam past the Greek watch fires—
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