No Need for Mary Magdalene:
Robin Lane Fox Reports that One Ancient Source Claimed that Alexander the Great’s Natural Body Odor was Like Perfume
The beauty whom we cannot see through years
And shrouds of time is one we have no chance
Of seeing photos of. Lascelles appears
In our imaginations. In his dance
Of veils, Lascelles is bodiless and blank
Of face. The veils are decades made of gauze
So thick we cannot know if “Charlie” stank
Of man when he came in from field applause
Or if like Alexander his hot sweat
Was like perfume. We simply do not know
A thing about Lascelles’s form. We bet
That he was not as lovely as the glow
That Rupert saw around him all wrapped up
In words inside his dampened jockstrap cup.
~ Phillip Whidden