Beside the traditional subjects
of love, sex, death and gods
and how beautiful is the full
or crescent Moon we must
place the wars, atrocities,
as they are, as subjects fit
for poetry when truthfully
carved like a sword cuts
flesh from a limb, a bloody
mess of flesh and pain,
Hector butchered by Achilles
and dragged around the walls
of doomed Troy, and salty
smell of maiden blood drained
as a libation on the mound under
which rotting lies Achilles
and all the myths of glory.
22.04.2025
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