The Incensing Mystic
Power of Philetadas
The slipperiest of Gods is Hermes, known
As Mercury to Romans, he with wings
On ankles and on head. This God was prone
To really hard erections. Stony Things
Were carved on statues of him in the Greece
Of Alcibiades. One poet from
Cyrene, Callimachus, composed a piece
About this youth who made men’s hearts succumb
To his young charms; not just their hearts, of course,
But also other pumping organs. Muscled skin,
Quite hairless, like a statue, had the force
To turn both poet and the rest to sin.
It seems they mocked each other for this lust
Which turned their ribs to incense to combust.