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Rereading Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser (Lankhmar) series. Perhaps the first fantasy antiheroes. 7 books of shuddersome delectation, written over 5 decades. Gods, demons, cosmology, treasure, monsters, corruption, lust, even love. If you haven't read them, do.

any
poem
would be
inadequate at least
like wooing the sea-king's
daughter without benefit of spinning tops or hag
like killing towers that aren't also monsters with a taste for hero blood
climbing mountains that don't try to kill you
worlds with fewer than two
evil subterranean empires
death your
personal
enemy



A mirrored fibonacci-no ku, counting words, not syllables.