Blessing to Daddy from Sophocles #2
BLESSINGS TO DADDY, FROM SOPHOCLES
Your train wheezes into Penn Station
After all the most elegant torque
Of Greece has eaten the skin off its olives
Piglet blessings, dear, blindly offload
See? They pitch, they veer, they don?t see
Some fall stupid on the tracks, they do
Others grip the slats of their failing moment
And won?t let go, must be dragged away
Let?s hang the lot of ?em in a window
Someone, you, was overheard muttering
And then another elegant word or two?
Let?s take some pictures, let?s take me
Dancing among the mysteries, the unexplained
Lessons learned from the flea of Colonus
From that dancing flea: how everyone?s innocent
Who, looking backward, unsees the sea

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