Stallings, "The Trials of Greece"
 

Alicia has just posted the start of a Canto of hers here. Wonderful stuff!

Duncan

PS Dear Mod, please correct my title!

Thank you Duncan! Great work. Funny as well (darkly).

Title corrected.

RobW

Not entirely sure about the punning ending--"Bull" for "bull$#!t has mythological resonance but loses the important explosive power of the actual swear word. But that's a quibble in a section of a poem that indicates a new, fruitful direction for Alicia.

The "Bull" at the end is a clever pun, imo, and added to the force of the ending.

I greatly enjoyed this, and could easily have gone on for more of it.

This is much more clever than the law allows.

I luv it! Snarky, full of good stuff (like Porphyrius the Charioteer [he's only implicit, though]). La la. No need for imbecilic coprolalia.

I love a gratuitous insult in the afternoon!

Great, Duncan, thanks. First-rate. Glad to see a long-time favorite in st. 6 -- though some on this site took offense.

Thanks for the shout-out, Duncan.

Love that docta puella.

"How bitter-sweet is/Poetry" indeed. This is masterful -- simultaneously comic and tragic, ancient and modern, foreign and domestic.

I'm persnickety enough to wonder aloud whether that delightful "occupation" joke would work in German and/or Greek. Of course, native speakers of those two languages might have only English in common, so maybe we should all just forget I mentioned it.

Just wonderful, all the way through. And thanks, Duncan, for the call-out.