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Family and hecklers Alike have gone - so I am the only audience Left for the gibbet and my Friend. a silent Breeze hums - so I observe He swings, remindful of A clock: a tick tock he Heard all his life but - No longer or - of A bell: a ding a ling of Encroaching hunger In a gesture of Empathy, i cut a hunk from His thigh - so My friend Can have a final Dinner with Me