a book of mythology
and independent research
on the deities of Greeks
from Aphrodite to Zeus and those between
she quizzed her class
on forty gods and goddesses
and only three students
remembered all but two
the rest moaned for a lack of miracles
it was then that she began to think
about the uses of so many roles,
one for this, and one for that,
and many more for this and that,
all idealized to be idolized
she fantasized
like we always do
about living in another time
when the people wore their own skins
and enjoyed their lovers with their wines
if she could have Dionysus and his immortality
and move him off his seat
away from the women wildly drowned in dance
and keep him faithful and content
in a quiet kind of life
if she could she'd be the daughter
of Aphrodite's breasts
and Athena's brain
dignified virginity
doused in sex
after school,
in front of the statue,
she'd stare at his body
wishing for Ovid
to make her Pygmalion.
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