Monday, July 25, 2022

14,450. OLD NAMES ALWAYS TANTALIZE

OLD NAMES ALWAYS TANTALIZE
Old names always tantalize me:
Menelek, Orestes, Menelaus. The
profound rotunda of those old
Greek names  -  running the gamut
of ancient time. Hecuba, Electra,
and Oedipus too. Never knowing
what it all quite meant, I read and
forged along. Summarizing even
the plots of plays now would be to
no avail, for no understands the
ancients now.
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Today's odd mix of baseball names 
and sport-God guys goes nowhere 
special except for mispronunciation:
lightning bars on Hispanic daggers;
a strange triple play of life and
place and logic  -  not near as wise.
Those old names always tantalize.

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