Neanderthal Messiah — 149

Final Student Symposium | Athens at Night -IV

[Sokrates enters from his beloved baths, beard still wet:]

[Handed an undiluted kylix.]

‘Let us begin, tell us some mirth or japes.’

[Plato buries his face in his hands, seriously!]

[A former sophomore poet, now bachelor bestowed:]

Relieved stiff by my girl’s .

Fisting, behind, inside her :

I even managed to make her ,

My parents’ third degree

Pornography phound they ??

!! to my transitive verb

And conjugation conjunctions

The imperative orders without you

Like they two before me do

From their punctured Odyssey craft

Blown adrift

Readerless

The semicolon’s suggestion

Of independent but related

I’d continue to eat her like an ‘

Parenthetically

Blurting above her hyphen

She “” italics

Love

i

Me

…

[Applause & Sokrates enjoys this encore before his hunger strike.]

…

[Plato, aghast:] ‘I will not write of this!’