Denmark
Forming round circle, steadfast tin
solders around praying
for their captain Eriksen.
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Football is a rollercoaster
ball thrown inside the net is like
the Death’s Scythe kisses
Erisksen’s neck in a sudden.
They lost one, two balls
and maybe one, two games.
But their minds forged in stainless steel.
Red shoes dashing through all opponents as
a painkiller shot through million neurons,
swift to the right, then left and
face central with goalkeeper
stolidly aim to the net.
Their attack is not a storm.
It’s a firework from
flare cannon.
Kill you from a horizon distance.
When captain Eriksen back to life,
his soldiers praised in the Mermaid’s song.
Fresh as white cods jump across the ocean
ready to write another Andersen fairy tale.
