odysseus thoughts...... augh

im going to study him like a bug !!! loser !!! biting him !!! etc etc

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there is (was) a child on the ramparts

and your hands are stained scarlet

and there is a woman (a god (a woman)) left weeping at the edge of the world

and six hundred corpses float face down in the sea behind you

and the maids’ feet do not touch the ground

and you are the lion and the hunter 

the beggar, god-cheater, monster-killer (monster)

and there is a god (a woman (a god)) that loves (loves?) you

and when you are met with empty stares you will know you are lying dead on a foreign shore

and there is rotted obsession (love) in your heart that has gnarled like an olive tree

(woven back to life with deft fingers)

but it (your heart (your wedding bed)) will be warmed tonight