Tithonos and Eos

TITHONOS AND EOS


This room in Eos house without windows,
The door tightly secured from the outside.
The food no longer shoved in
through the trap in door,
For old Tithonos is immortal,
not eating will not cause him to die.
When immortal Tithonos grew old and ugly,
Eos, a goddess eternally young,
shut him from her sight.
Eos spends her time at the corner bar
sipping Campari,
Waiting to find a young man as beautiful
as the young Tithonos.
Tithonos is now 2,000 years.
He is so old his wrinkled flesh
has disappeared, even his aged bones
have disappeared.
All that is left of Tithonos is his voice.
With his voice he sings
A Lehar song from Paganini,
“Girls are made to love and kiss.”


Duane Locke

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