Alkaios

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Author: Willis Barnstone  | Date: 590 B.C.

To the Mytilenians

The local tyrant

rants and blusters and you are silenced

like a school of frightened neophytes

confronting the dead in holy rituals.

But I tell you, O citizens of Lesbos,

rise up and quench the smoldering logs

before their flames climb and consume you all

in total fire!

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