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deep tunnels into Rome
like hoods of the city/

engine hammering the sunshine
like a shadow-gun/
climbing out on golden
arched spirals of the city,

freezy wind blew over Aidone
and the Sicilian island, taking mist in its teeth
and revealed the city like a shark's tooth
rising from the waving earth below Etna
encrusted with white buildings,
like a treasure trove/
Neuvo-Dorian? Huh,
there was no Dorian invasion from outside
when the bronze-age burnt to its foundations,
the Dorians were living in the mountains
and came down after the fires,
Myceneans had been asking for trouble, the Trojan War
one last folly, destructive death-drive,
slaving raids took boys and women (Paris taking Helen),
drought, climate change and so on,
everything shattered, everyone lost or dead / Odysseus / Aeneas /
Ajax / Achilles / Carthaginian Dido