Primitive Prurient Prejudice
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Excised from Jason’s crew, the greatest man
Among them disappeared to zero scale.
They sailed away without him. In this ban
They saved the chance for Jason. He was pale
(Or would have proved) if Herakles had not
Been left, abandoned by the Argonauts,
When he had lost the seriously hot
Young Hylas to the nymphs. Arms rowed fast knots
Away from him and his distress. We do
Not know why poets cut him from the verse.
Perhaps the straighter members of the crew
Just wanted Jason as their top—or worse,
They did not want a hero who desired
Hercules and Hylas. Cornwall LGBT History Project 2016. Malcolm Lidbury c.JPG
A younger man’s haired parts to be admired.