Culture Wars
By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 06, 2022
Culture Wars
Beneath the walls of Troy
Thousand black ships
Beached on the shore
Fighting over a whore
A gift to snively Paris
For choosing Aphrodite
Taking love over
Power and wisdom
So it is in the culture wars
Slogging on and on
Arguing the canon
Rampaging cancel culture
Keeping us woke
Nightmares for dreams
Wax and wane
Driving me insane
The absurdity of it
Those ten years
They hacked and slashed
Over arête and Helen
The bitch of Menelaeus
Day-by-day
The gods had their say
Tide of battle its
Ebb and sway
Fortunes reversed
When gods took time off
Athena too busy to
Guide Greek spears
Deep into Trojan flesh
Or Zeus seducing
Some tart or other
Aphrodite laying
With a lover
So too with cancel culture
When our best warriors
Tested by time and battle
Sulk in their tents
Sipping weak tea
Nursing old wounds
Denying us their
Power and wisdom
While the madness
Prevails with ever
More absurdity
Every sword counts
As losses mount
Penelope unknits
Her endless tapestry
Waiting for husband
Coming home from war
Taking sweet time
Where it all ended
Such tragedy