MARY’S MONSTER
by William Latham

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Two hundred years ago, a legend was born.

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Not born of man and woman,
but assembled from pieces of the dead.

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Two hundred years ago, a poet mysteriously drowned.

 

A lord went off to war,
seeking safety in numbers fron an unnamed menace.

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Two hundred years ago, a seventeen-year-old girl created a monster.

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Someone else created him first.

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And everyone knows, monsters never die.