i look down at the body
to see what shape its in.

earth-born son, turquoise slap
of my mother against the golden-
bangled mother. i let them come.

my dark tongues flickering, my heads
Cancerian fire. every tip would touch you.

the shoulders of a bull, eyelashes lower
over tender pools obsidian. im a cow.

a ticket to the fight. my velvet
suit. warm press of skin.
i drink, i let it come.

dragging behind its un-
translatable blade.


//

Socrates: (in Charmides, cont.)

and in that same spot
i (they) take hold altogether of many

those (on the one hand) unknown by me
those (on the other hand) the most thoroughly-known

// 153α

καὶ αὐτόθι κατέλαβον πάνυ πολλούς

τοὺς μὲν καὶ ἀγνῶτας ἐμοί
τοὺς δὲ πλείστους γνωρίμους