Lover’s Advice

Theseus on Saving Andromeda

It was never about heroics. No,

it was political and a matter

of position. I’d rather the splatter

of her blood had stained that stone! Didn’t know

until much later what a nag could grow

from a princess saved; oh! how this latter

Andromeda vexes me. No satyr

would bother these days . . . Let your no be no

 

lest some fair damsel make you a gelding

fit for domestic life and the road past

tense in your present perfect life! Wedding

a princess is such a far cry from last

innocence and the sport of just bedding

maidens. Run, Romeo, run away fast!

David M Pitchford
22 May 2008