Southerly, March 22nd, 1999
For James McAuley
"The mad, bad, dangerous to know, He'll use you up then spit you out" From jealous friends, I'd counter with: The Karamazov clan in one, Faust, Mann's Holy Sinner Grigorss Who sloughed off shame beneath a rock, Emerging honey-sweet and mild, The Dioskouroi, star and shade In interchanging roles, such was The range his tightrope stretched across. Enigmatic, I'd concede, doomed To fall apart from paradox, And yet he didn't, bearing all Courageously within. Good friend-- As Gilgamesh to Enkidu Delivered by royal courtesans From Hell's Gate's beasts for life with him At his ...
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