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# Outrageous Fortune
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/outrageous-fortune/
- Published: 2023-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: How vain you are! Your peacock feathers, your decorated, pompous ass, your quiver from expensive leathers, your head the center of your mass.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

How vain you are! Your peacock feathers,  
your decorated, pompous ass,  
your quiver from expensive leathers,  
your head the center of your mass.

And yet, you bow to every master,  
and anyone can pull your string,  
and though you're deadlier, and faster,  
what are you, if you're not a sling.