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Tiresias In Love

from Lazarus Men by Sumerias Fain

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Tiresias in Love

Take my eyes or all my years!
Take away my tongue!
Just let me split the entwined serpents
I split when I was young.

I knew a man when I was a man,
I knew a woman too,
and while a woman knew them both
one was nectar, one was dew.

Dew can wet a thirsty tongue
dry and cracked with fissures,
while nectar burns the self alive with
pulsing deathless pleasures.

Take my eyes or all my years!
Take away my tongue!
Just let me split the entwined serpents
I split when I was young.

Today the eagle tore the pidgeon
from flight. I know this omen!
Even so, I loved the best
when I loved as a woman.

So frost my pupils to my lids --
I'm sure you gods need sight.
But give these dry breasts life again
Oh, pity! Pity this poor wight!

I need to feel it all again!
Those seven years weren't long.
Afterwards, my loins went weak as
my prophetic arts grew strong.

Tiresias In Love
Tiresias In Love

I knew a man when I was a man
I knew a woman too.
And I am old. And I'm a fool.
Who trades nectar for the dew?

Tiresias In Love
Tiresias In Love
Tiresias In Love
Tiresias In Love

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from Lazarus Men, released December 28, 2016

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