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Aug 2018
I stripped the gold from Agamemnon’s mask.
I scoured Clytemnestra’s black heart.
I wiped the blood from Orestes’ sword,
and made Mycenae’s throne room my own.

I promised Achilles no mortal man’s life,
then I felled him at Troy by my hand.
We gods turn out fickle; we heedlessly maim
man’s fortunes, his women, his land.

Do not trust us.
Arlice W Davenport
Written by
Arlice W Davenport  M/Kansas
(M/Kansas)   
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       Vanessa Gatley and elja
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