Zapfic Contest, Week of June 2, 2019, Prompt: Pilot

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He stayed at the ship's helm all night.
How he kept a steady hand, we did not know until morning.
He was dead; in his pocket, an empty vial.
“Will induce rigor mortis instantaneously.”
Next to the cross of Christ, for us, there was a wheel.

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