War God’s Lesson

18 August 2021 Wednesday Prose Poem: reclaiming figures of myth

BJ Dawson
Scrittura
Published in
3 min readAug 21, 2021

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Photo by Simone Pellegrini on Unsplash

Ares entered the Celestial Pantheon, still soaked in the blood of his enemies, legions upon legions of cannon fodder that wouldn’t even begin to come close to slaking the thirst of his bloodlust. At this point, bathing seemed only ceremonial in nature; yet another wasted endeavor like the heaping, writhing pleas of hapless…

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BJ Dawson
Scrittura

Medium Top Procrastinator. Guilty of writing under the influence. No, I’m not upset. My face always looks this way. INTP https://cosmicrubble.com/