Homer's (the blind man's) poetry as seen by the waiter

"Iliad XI"
 

  XI

book eleven

And

Agamemnon has his day of glory too,

the Argonauts are reaping victory after victory

in man to man combat.

Over there Odysseus leaving the dead

turns around to skewer Hippasus' son too,

the blood brother of the wealthy Socus. Somewhow

Socus moves in quick like a god to shield his kin, standing up

to his enemy, crying out,

"Odysseus — wild for fame, glutton for cunning,

glutton for war, today you can triumph killing

such good men — here take my spear

so you'll breathe your last!"

And wouldn't it have been for the fact

that the gods had signed up Odysseus

for the lead role in the Odyssey,

another production soon to be staged

Socus certainly would have killed the hero.

Yet Socus is more dispensable,

not needed for the future acts, he has to go.

Athena herself made sure of such.

And Hades greets him opening the gates wide

for Socus in first class, he and his friends riding coach

as the famous coachman takes them

on a grand-tour past all their play- and battle grounds

and through the known parts of the otherworld.      
 
 
 

...Jetty Road...