EURIPIDES WAS WRONG

Iphigeneia shall bleed

as a sacrifice to raise

the wind to doom Ilion

and its pillagers alike;

no deer shall take her place.

The dagger will find her

bosom, tear at her beating

heart. The cry that rises

above the roar of the fire

shall escape from her lips,

the smell of burning flesh the men

in the ships driven to Asia's

shore will remember shall

be hers. There are

no happy endings, there

are not even happy

prologues to a great slaughter.

10.01.2018