Bridge to the Übermensch

Let's workshop this poem about a weathered individual who, by laying himself down in service to a brilliant friend, has unknowingly traveled far on the path to becoming a wiseman.

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Bridge to the Übermensch

The battered misfit
has clearly traversed
the toughest terrain
on his unwitting route

to Tolkien sagacity:
it whispers through
his letting himself—in
bowed humility (ready

to serve, unbitter)—
be floored by the art,
the harsh genius, even
of a boyhood friend.

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