Wide-Eyed, Sure, Fella—But Maybe I Care More
right now about reproaching than some dicey
rapprochement. Watch out. My name means Ship
-burner. I’ve scanned the humblebrag sheet [a man
in the fool future will claim I composed it]: no word
of keeping your buh-bye promise, worshipping me
as a goddess, once you’re home. Not that I’ll be
un-thought of after arrows pierce windpipes & blood
weds blood on that feast hall floor. When you spill to your wife
[enchantress, sirens, randy nymph], you’ll skip
Nausikaa. Proof enough. Yep, let this bogus
goddess foretell. Your Ithaka’s pillaged, like
a fat nation after an election stolen—
only, the stupid long war came first. You bet
I’ll marry. Not you. Some man not made of words.