Jake's Flea Market

at the black eagle yesterday i met
a mercenary named kehrin

a soldier amputated
below the knee down to a beggar

a deserving beggar
amputated from a cruel career down
to holding his hand out for a kindness

he brought old reports from 
ghent abandoned by the dutch
starved by the spaniard

i bought tankards of beer 
for him to make the old news new