Iphicles
I hope he had a hobby
from which he excelled too,
maybe pottery or horticulture.
Or he made nice
figurines with
manicured features carved out of
hardened clay and he used chaff
for hair and wove clothes out of
wheat shafts.
It must have been hard on
him to deal with that kind of
competition.
Maybe he developed an alias,
shaved his beard and
moved to a new land.
Where he wed into anonymity
and left behind a brother too busy
for the world and a mother whom
he must have run out of excuses for.
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