This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-06-04 14:28:55 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The One-Legged Hopping Man

In a city of the misshapen it is only the truly monstrous who will stand out in a crowd, but above and beyond all, was The One-Legged Hopping Man. He would bob up and down through the mob of the one-eyed, the double-headed, the three-toed, et cetera. He owned no crutch nor cane, just one long whipcord thin leg and none other.  He'd get about like a living pogo stick. He was naked except for the turban on his head, a skimpy loincloth and a bed roll under one arm. I went after him once, to see where he would go,  and go he did-- faster and  ever faster, and I could hardly  keep up through the mob of mutants,  of miscreants, of monsters. At last he stopped and turned to me and said --In a world of  the misbegotten, it is perfection  that is seen as error--.

Copyright © June 2001 John R. Birkbeck

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This poem was published in Arcanum Cafe.


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