The Blinded Poet Sang

           The Blinded Poet Sang

The ancient Greeks were heartless beasts.  They loved

The slaughter in the Iliad, the rape

Of women captured and subdued.  Greeks shoved

Themselves between those thighs and hips agape

For domination by triumphant men.

They gloated in the victories of the sword

And thrusting maleness.  They were like a den

Of monsters wanting bodies that are gored.

They took dead men as trophies and their wives

And children as their slaves by brutal rule.

The Greeks instead of hearts had pumping knives

And mouths that spilled testosterone as drool.

..When ancient Greeks had won a gut-spilled fight,

….They hunched inside war widows for the night.