battling for
the beautiful Helena
defeated Ajax
through Athena's cow dunga
drifted to
the island Ogygia.
Calypso's cave
he traded for Nausicaa.
Spoke to her of
Lotofagia,
of Cyclops and Aeaea
Charibdis and Trinacria.
Home again with Penelope
after a philippica
all the suitors
got euthanasia.
"It's not Ódysseus but Odýsseus
and doesn't sound like 'yellow sun',
if that was your intention.
So there is something wrong with the meter.
The a's added to Helen, dung and philippic …
alright, but the damning speech was named
after Philip of Macedon who was born
much later than Homer."
More criticism from Ien: "those
suitors, didn't one or two escape?
The rest was arrowed down ... not?"
