Born a Royal Beast is a poem written by Bruce Boston. It was first published in the 1988 collection Skin Trades—Poetry. It was reprinted in the 1990 collection Faces of the Beast, in the 1995 magazine Dark Regions, v3 #1, in the 1995 collection Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems 1970-1995, and in the 2016 collection Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016.
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