Herodotus Lives

Zeus 
      redefined
    Mount Olympus
		   redesigned
          The songs of Homer
			     redescribed
The result of two millennia's experiences passed
                              awaits
These voices
	so very many 
		    voices
         resonate
	with centuries-old tales
			of greedy gods 
			     seeking
		the secret
			to human 
				alchemy
One                 
      condones clinic
		   killings
	Another
                     exploits ethnic
		             euthanasia
		One even
		        tolerates a thirst
				for terrorism	
Is it that 
	obvious
		our leaden ears
      have turned out
		a source
		       for their golden plunders?

Further along on our 
		  Aegean journey . . .

We want not
	for the lure
		of the siren's call
We create our own

Cyclops
	is nothing more
		than a bully
       to be silenced
	           by a bullet's bite
The scaly nature
	of Medusa's
		writhing hair
     is cured
	by simply switching
			conditioners

With the Philosophy
		of History
			transmogrified
Does Hegel's 
	  dialectic
		go terribly
			awry
The truth
	I seek
	        I shall find
     From within
		I pushoff
My Iliad
	began calmly
		on the shallow waters
			of collective consciousness
And will end
	upon discovery
		of my soul's place
				in perpetuity

               ---Robert Meyers-Lussier

           29 October 1995

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