The place was a funeral pyre for the youngwho died before knowing the thirst of manor woman. Furies with snakes in their hairwept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped winein a dream, as the eyes of a vulturepoised over Tityus' liver.
-Yusef Komunyakaa
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