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Love is lust's
anticlimax.


Tomorrow I will sneak out
like a child, abuse a
stranger, pretend to be
a whore on the sidewalk.

And I will say to teenagers:
bare your scythén-teeth
while you can, you poor
goddamn Cronuses.

I will swallow a stone
and throw it up again, cast it
behind me. It will be
nothing more and likely less
than a childhood.

I am the anticlimax
to myself.
Whore, goddamn, and childhood are all profanities-- but like all things, they have their place.

Didn't I mean to stop using greek mythology as a crutch? Whoops.

Cronus castrated his father with a scythe and then usurped him. Later, he swallowed his own children out of fear, but was tricked by his wife into eating a stone instead of his youngest son (Zeus). He then vomited up all his other children and was usurped by Zeus after a great battle.

In the Greek universal flood myth (much akin to the Noah's Ark story), the two sole survivors received an oracle at the temple of Themis to cast stones behind them. Where those stones fell, a new generation of people sprung up.

So, yes. I mashed together two myths.

Scythén is not a word, but I couldn't figure out a valid way to say scythe-like.
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Fur-wahre-liebe's avatar
DOCH... I'm stubborn... I will win