My dear Telemachus,
\nThe Trojan War
\nis over now; I don’t recall who won it.
\nThe Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave
\nso many dead so far from their own homeland.
\nBut still, my homeward way has proved too long.
\nWhile we were wasting time there, old Poseidon,
\nit almost seems, stretched and extended space.<\/p>\n
I don’t know where I am or what this place
\ncan be. It would appear some filthy island,
\nwith bushes, clintons, and great grunting pigs.
\nA garden choked with weeds; some queen or other.
\nGrass and huge stones . . . Telemachus, my son!
\nTo a wanderer the faces of all islands
\nresemble one another. And the mind
\ntrips, numbering waves; eyes, sore from sea horizons,
\nrun; and the flesh of water stuffs the ears.
\nI can’t remember how the war came out;
\neven how old you are–I can’t remember.<\/p>\n
Grow up, then, my Telemachus, grow strong.
\nOnly the gods know if we’ll see each other
\nagain. You’ve long since ceased to be that babe
\nbefore whom I reined in the plowing bullocks.
\nHad it not been for Palamedes’ trick
\nwe two would still be living in one household.
\nBut maybe grampa was right; away from me
\nyou are quite safe from all Oedipal passions,
\nand your dreams, my Telemachus, are blameless.
\n– See more at: http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15205#sthash.gvPZxcV2.dpuf<\/p>\n
ANNOTATION:<\/p>\n
Laertes is Richard Milhous Nixxon and through Odysseus he sends this message to Telemachus who is Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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