When you got him and, because, like...

When you got him and, because, like me you like drama,
carried him in your render free of access shirt three weeks
like the fox in the Spartan's boy's cloak, or beloved John
at the Last evening meal it wasn't that people liked you
more for his sake, allowing that mattered;
or public penance, either. It was a way of saying
you were paying attention
to something in yourself, thus you'd ask less of women-
your hair-trigger; your overpowered look, lost in the first waters....
Like me you were given the investigation
of their grief, in such a manner different-seeming from ours, so