On a Serpent Painted on the Aft of a Ship.(Poem)

From: Chicago Review | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Hipponax 

Mimnes, you sick aesthete! Why'd ya paint a long 
snake-thing going up the rear end of our trireme? (1) 
 
We'll be fucked with black luck, become slave-rowers 
for pug-nosed Thessalians. We'll get eaten by sea-worms. 
 
Also, our pretty helmsman will grow light-headed from 
pressing tight, in fear, the cheeks of his succulent ass.

(1.) A large galley with three banks of oars.

Banished from Ephesos, Hipponax (565-520 BCE) lived much of his life as a wondering beggar in the nearby city of Klazomenai. He is one of the most demotic, bawdy, and satirically cutting ...

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