By lifelong sorrow I was scalped,
Skewered by deceit and hate
Then out of Argos I was expectorated.
Like jetsam upon a sprawling, desolate sea,
I spilled to the gilded crown of a Delphic-rabid king,
And was swindled to murder a lascivious fiend
To murder the depraved Gorgon queen.
Upon black waves I persistently pressed,
Bordering realms where the Cimmerians nest,
Seeking the immortality that was purloined by Aphrodite.
Her dulcet reflection in whispers hymned
Of shimmering scales beneath aquiline wings;
I barred the lust that gorged my mind,
And tore her scabrous neck;
Her ashen blood sprayed the catacomb,
Rearing the Equine form.
And as the snake-locks writhed,
Stheno and Euryale rose
But veiled in shade,
I absconded with the prize.
Vengeance breeds in deception
I was born restrained,
Bound in bronze to eschew prophecy.
Vengeancea dual grave.
Upon return I burst into the hall,
Glanced the fool upon the dais,
And reared the severed head
Enshrined his reign to gray.