PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

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A fairly small theater, relatively speaking,

it is located on "that side," the seedier side of

Alexandria.  Admission is very exclusive, being

restricted to men and some boys whose natures

inclined toward male to male Love, the sort that

judgemental prudes and haters persecute---even in

Alexandria.  The theater has produced plays,

vignettes, mimes, and recitations of the most

erotic epigrams gathered under a single roof.  Even

Pharaoh himself, Ptolemy XV, Lord of the two lands,

has attended---known, there, only by his common

name, Kaisarion, and clad as an ordinary resident of

Alexandria, a barefoot adolescent as beautiful as

any of the actors (naked or clothed) who have

appeared in performance on that small stage.

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Among those actors, Seth and Cyrus are very popular to

those who see them there; two foreign adolescents whom

prejudiced purists ("Our ancestors served Alexander!")

dismiss; but whose physical beauty and thespian talent

exceed even the most demanding expectations.  Right

now, as we speak, they are performing the principle

roles in an anonymous play, Achilles And Patroclus

Dodge The Draft That Drifts Toward Troy, an explicitly

intimate romance between the titular characters.  Homer

would most probably have disliked this play, but those

who have seen it not only praise it but are deeply

impressed by the authenticity that Seth and Cyrus bring

out from those characters---the way they gaze at each

other, or kiss, or caress each other.  But this aspect is

easily explained:  Seth and Cyrus are lovers, outside and

apart from the plays in which they have performed.  Naked,

lithe, and beautiful of hair, visage, and limb, Seth and

Cyrus embody the very poetry of Homosexuality, and this

they offer to the audience gathered there to celebrate and

appreciate the various literary versions of exquisite Love. 

Starward-Led