Ancient Attic Porcelain; 80,000 Vases
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Those pieces made by potters of the Greeks
In Attica alone in ancient times
Give more than eighty thousand gorgeous peeks
For us into that past, including crimes
Of murder on the battlefield and rapes
Of boys and girls by hooligan-like gods
Who ravish, brutal brats. The manly drapes
Of clothing in the banquet scenes, at odds
With genitals in war, belie the facts
Of what was happening on couches where
The men got slowly drunk. The hard flesh acts
Of bearded man with beardless boy, a pair
Of lovers, we can guess. They put a part
With part, both driven by the wine and heart.