“What would a man not give to engage in conversation with Orpheus?” ~ Plato
That marble minded Plato thinks of men,
Not women, girls, or boys before they grow
Their body hair in armpit, crotch, and then
The beard. His brain was right since women glow
With threat and pain for Orpheus. They tear
Him into pieces, cannibals of verse,
And song, and sex with beautiful young flare
Of manly parts. His wife was even worse.
Eurydice abandoned him across the Styx
Where lyrics, potency of maleness, harp
And grief are pale. She was his crucifix.
He knew a wife’s and women’s loves are sharp.
So Plato knew the universe’s laws.
The singer should seek males, not women’ claws.