How I have been doing this long weekend is not very well, in ways generically and specifically disheartening, but it has interested me to discover that while I have to do it by hand with pencil and paper, as if it's muscle memory rather than mental recall, I can still scan classical Greek sufficient to fake a Homeric epithet for our Hestia, slayer of towels: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ τέκνου Ἥρας μακτροφόνοιο. (She sang to us earlier this evening of her triumph over the roll we were still using.) The attentive reader may note that I am relying heavily on both Attic and epic correption and an eighth-century audience would think I didn't know my theogony, but it makes me feel better.
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- 1: And four hours north of Portland, the radio flips on
- 2: Re-reading our texts from the strawberry days
- 3: You are just the fingertips of something
- 4: I yield to her cry, losing my own names within me
- 5: Shaking off the echoes of yesterday
- 6: Everything I love is on the table, everything I love is out to sea
- 7: He tried to run away, well, she hit him with a hammer
- 8: There's no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
- 9: She's got a common full of love
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