The Cheat

Adjunct Assistant Professor Ferdy
lives between
a selling life and
the high fortress,
stands on the road
leading up the hill
to the opening in
the palace wall.
He is a creature
of weakness-bred
compassion.

Tyrone is better groomed
than most of his classmates, studying
under duress, heading where
he never aimed.
That could drive a
student like Tyrone
into fraud.