@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; After Reading 'Eros And Ganymede At Troy,' A Brief Epyllion

"Playful Eros and his Beloved Ganymede,

meeting atop the loftiest tower of Troy,

have found in each other that innate and real need

for Homogenic Love, and pleasure, and joy."

---Cerulean Of Paphos On Cyprus, Eros And Ganymede At Troy,

translated by Nizhny Novgorod


Shoeless and shirtless, clad in supple and baggy

gray dress slacks and midnight blue socks, he

entrusts himself to your affection and desires,

having admitted, shyly (with some embarrassment)

that he has not yet been with a man; but has realized

that society's expectations and inhibitions, imposed

upon him, are ludicrously laughable litigiousies meant

to obstruct his innate and inherent homogeny.  He has,

just now, felt the invitation your lips brought his;

your tongue's, and his, slow swirling in a dance as

ancient as the farthest stars and as new as arriving

sunlight; along with your fingers' gentle glide through

the attractive softness of his nearly waist-length

auburn hair.  Then varied patterns traced by your playful

fingertips on his soft-sheathed soles---heels to toes---

intimately and eloquently convey arousal to his torso's 

receptive circlets and, southward, his rising lofter.

Old prudes and haters have striven to prevent this

commencement of his true nature's graduation into its

best and fullest version; but the eighteen years he has

recently attained demand it, and your twenty-nine years'

experienced life have equipped and prepared you to

satisfy that emerging and most intimate need.

 

 

J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I am indebted to the great scholars, Taphless Gibler and Mimsy Borogove, experts on ancient, Hellenic Poetry of the Ptolemaic era, for directing me to the source of the epigraph.  Vadim Stepan referred me to the translation.

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