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Tomb of A Hero: NWM
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Caribbean Quarterly
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March 1, 2008
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Inconvenient man, spare, angular dreamer,
the ascetic of the hustings, they,
could hardly wait to structure round you grey sarcophagus and
even as if the stream
of a bright purpose, once corralled, once domestically cradled,
drew beatitude
from word-slurry and wordsludge
still greyer platitude.
We could hardly wait.
Our hearthless homes
required an icon, and you were it,
while you yet breathed: the soldier's aptness for reality
('One thing more, always one more thing'):
death's equivocating ridicule
of all our jauntiness,
this book you gave yourself a long time ago, we had to have.
Prisoner like Toussaint in that heaven
of the will to its own
annihilation plighted, yours
then is the ...