Torturers: Eurydice, Women, God, or Boys, Finally
That Orpheus had several deaths implies
He did not die. Myths tried to kill him. Bad,
They failed. The tellings of his deaths are lies.
He drove, one story goes, the Maenads mad.
Another said that jealous women tore
His head and limbs away. These fictions made
A victim of him. Martyrdom’s a spore,
Though. So from even a female tirade
Verse can find its way to live again. Zeus
Killed Orpheus with lightning in one tale.
The lonely man had started to seduce
Boys. Clearly love for big breasts had gone stale.
The weighting says that negative lost bride
Or female types caused a failed suicide.