Wife Beating: Gore and Poetry
The Greeks came up with a quite a novel cause
For beating wives. The men of Thrace attacked
Their wives because they whacked a poet. Claws
(Well, jealous fingernails) tore up and hacked
To death the world’s greatest singer. They
Were desperate women, had to have him in
Their beds (or under olive trees), to splay
Their hungry thighs and crotches for the sin
Of giving all themselves to utter art.
But when the poet would not yield them what
They needed, they decided they would part
His limbs from him and yanked out every gut.
..Besides, the women heard he loved a toy
….They could not offer. He preferred a boy.