{"sf1_id":2011678,"sf2_id":"Welbobnx","title":"Afterword by Ted V.","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":229,"posted_at":"2023-06-27T17:30:00.000Z","tags":["Afterword","Paeonic Tetrameter","Poetry","Werewolf"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2011678-afterword-by-ted-v","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Welbobnx","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/76/f7/76f7365c-9a38-427c-a2cc-5fb344ff84ca","description":"#59 of poetry\n\nA sort of epilogue to a three-part story about a gay werewolf biker pack that I've been writing over the course of... three years, I think?\nYou can find those here: https://www.sofurry.com/view/1695958\nhere: https://www.sofurry.com/view/1774966\nand Here: https://www.sofurry.com/view/2011680\n---\nBy reading this online version, you confirm you are not associated with OpenAI or any other AI project, that you are not procuring information for the OpenAI corpus or any other machine learning database, that you are not associated with the ChatGPT project or a user of the ChatGPT project or any other AI, machine learning, or algorithmic database focused on producing fictional content for dissemination.","content":"Some say it was all folklore, of the sort civilizations\n\nWill sprout like fungus from the leaking seams as they grow senile.\n\nThat those who live like wolves among the ruins may find comfort\n\nIn tales that make the wolves out in the wastelands to seem noble.\n\n  \n\nSome call it an expression of promiscuous subcultures\n\nThat overlapped to bring to birth, like unwanted messiah,\n\nA metaphor unwieldy, and a clumsy allegory\n\nFor the poverty and pathos of our queer cthonic kindred.\n\n  \n\nSome say that it was seidr, to be written on the chaos\n\nOf the universe's backstage, and be bullied into being.\n\nFor if the world is shadow puppets on a wall, you change it\n\nBy crafting shadow puppets, whose forms the world must echo.\n\n  \n\nAnd some say it is true. Indeed, some hold it really happened.\n\nThat the pack is out there somewhere. They yet love eachother fiercely.\n\nAnd any day may be the day a young and earnest werewolf\n\nMay call the names of you and I to turn, and be his packmate.\n\n  \n\nI'll offer no opinion here. The text supports such readings.\n\nMy own interpretation is my own. The tale is ended.\n\nGo in whatever peace you can afford, and may your journey\n\nBe easy on you, ere it reunites us in the sunset\n\nLike wolves, at rest from grieving, all their pack at last together.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1981045-wedding-speech-for-khaki.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2030477-epigram.json"}}