Gunslinger

[tectak]

Vitruvius, you convoluted man,
brain like a polluted avian,
turned poor Leo into a deluded vitruvian.
Never realizing that the tetrahedron is the key,
not that stretched out line of naked humanity.
Might as well mistake a mermaid for a manatee,
although both are as out of reach,
as a pentagram door on
Stephen Kings beach.
One hand…more or less!

©-Erthona

Sometimes I wonder what rattles your cage!
We live near to Hexham. The Romans liked the place so much they stayed there long enough to build a couple of forts ( Housteads) then the cold got to their bare knees and they left. Vitruvius is credited with his engineering skills and gets an Hon. Mensh at our local fort. Not one to limit himself to fort building (if he did at all....not much info for sure) he did a job on Leo and in the face of total contemporaneous apathy gave future artists some crap stiff enough to hang a canvas on with the much replicated Vitruvian Man. I can get the same result with the shape of a Cadbury's Cream Egg shape...so what?
Anyway, along comes this bloke, erthona was his name (allegedly) who takes umbrage with Vitruvius and gets off on one in a neat little ten-liner some time later; well, about 2000 years later...I mean, why Vitruvius....why now??? Apostrophe in S. King's beach. God, how could you?:
Best,
tectak