The Hero of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
A misthios was all I ever wanted
Not to be am I dream the money’s in
A box in the clouds but wait was tin
Cheap while I lived the money’s clean not haunted
In a tin box hung from a bronze chain nailed
With a gold nail to the clouds I climb a match
-stick ladder to my roof and watch
For the gold nail to freeze and snap in the cold
And dreams to fall from the sky I kill enough
Wild goats the eagle I command falls aw
-ful on the next and on his claw
I see the blood I see the cloud-white fluff
The Hero of The Outer Worlds
Most of my health I get from locked containers
The yellow ones I’ve got too many FunTimes
Barrels I found on corpses sometimes
And sometimes find them new in garbage cans or
Whatever the red containers are some people
Only say one thing ever some two and e
-ven if I set their planet free
Their lives don’t change you smash all the mock apples
You’ve ever seen together you won’t get
A single real Earth apple but the juice
Is real the shirt that was too loose
On the corpse fits me ’cause it’s no one’s shirt
The Hero of The God of War
My father leads me to the mountain he
Carries my mother’s ashes in a pouch
Me on his back up cliffs we crouch
Beneath a heavy rock like frightened lizards be
-tween it the heavy rock and the cold dirt
It’s not a tunnel but it’s like a low
-er sky and shuffle as we go
Wading through human bones I’m sick and hurt
Him by being sick I years ago I was
And so to him I’m always sick the rock
Might fall and all the dry bones break
And puff away blood traps the clouds in us
Note: “Blank Verse Sonnet Concluded by a Pure Rhyme and an Impure Rhyme” and “Elizabethan Sonnet on Violating the Flag Code” were first published in Berlin Lit
