Thanks for your responses so far. I should have known there was already a thread on this topic a decade or so ago. I got a bit of a chuckle out of all of the "of course" and "obviously" comments. I did indeed consider a lot of the options you provided as obvious...though there are reasons why I'm avoiding most of them. I may decide to add Beowulf, but we'll see. A few of the poems I don't know, so will check them out. I'm glad for the Borges comment, though. I haven't read Borges in a good long while and somewhat forgot about how many great stories he has that are "monstrous." I'll be using Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and something by Borges would surely fit well alongside it.
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