| SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 2 |
| by Stan Persky | |
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Today no one cares about the tongue of Orpheus cut out by order of the tyrant yesterday. And everyday schoolchildren visit the museum to gaze indifferently upon the tongue of Orpheus in a glass case. Allthat'slivingmemorytome isbuttheendofhistory for the children bow their heads only to the little screens in their palms "...class antagonisms pale before the new division of people into friends and enemies of the word." Make your "Ode" to the tyrant a real poem When there is no way to speak of the silence between stanzas, about the spaces between words Bangkok, Dec. 2001 "...their tongues were cut out and with the stump that remained they were forced to glorify the tyrant." --Nadezhda Mandelstam "I am learning from him to be merciless to myself" --Osip Mandelstam, "Ode to Stalin" Only registered users can write comments. Powered by AkoComment Tweaked Special Edition v.1.4.6 |
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