V. If a head of state dies intestate, like old Tezozomoc,
then custom, not law states their spirit self emancipates
from the obligations of fame.
Until one day, like a rock, a crumbling skeleton without name
is dug up by pickaxe or plow.
Everyone asking, then how, this giant this son of the Earth
came from an earlier Earth.
I grieve and still carry the promissory note
for glorious Netzahualcoyotl, though I
know well this captive is thus kept in my citadel.