05-11-2025, 01:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2025, 01:05 PM by RiverNotch.)
Virgin Athena's city
was governed by no kings
except how every house
treated their fathers so,
their sons as oligarchs,
at last without a proper
voice in any affairs
of state their mass of slaves
who tidy every room
or harvest every crop,
alien associates
who man their ships of trade,
and women who are there
only to bear their young.
Now I wonder if fourteen of what I wrote this month is worth collecting (and, if so, which ones).
was governed by no kings
except how every house
treated their fathers so,
their sons as oligarchs,
at last without a proper
voice in any affairs
of state their mass of slaves
who tidy every room
or harvest every crop,
alien associates
who man their ships of trade,
and women who are there
only to bear their young.
Now I wonder if fourteen of what I wrote this month is worth collecting (and, if so, which ones).