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THE THIRD pt XIV of The Waste Land cycle by Joel Sattler

part III of "What the Thunder Said"

based on the poem by TS Eliot

who is the third
who is the third who walks beside you
who is the third
on the other side of you

when I try to count
there is only you and I
but when I look ahead
another walks beside

wrapped in a brown robe
hood without a face
man or woman I don't know
leaving not a trace

who is the third
who is the third who walks beside you
who is the third
on the other side of you

what is that sound on high
the mother's lamentations
high up in the sky
sweeping over nations

who are the hooded hoards
swarming over plains
stumbling in the cracks
of the earth in pain

ringed by flat horizon
cities over mountains
reforming bursting in violet air
falling towers counting


Athens and Jerusalem
ancient Alexandria
Vienna, London and London
falling towers falling walls
unreal cities all

who is the third
who is the third who walks beside you
who is the third
on the other side of you

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