Yes, this is about Achilles and Patroclus.

( Asphodel )

The Triumph of AchillesIn the story of Patroclus ( Read more... )

Old Croghan Man

This is how we honor dead kings.

You sleep in your glass case in this

Dimly lit room, while curious faces

Peer at you, fascinated and repulsed,

Before flitting away like frightened fish.

In life you must have seemed a god,

Taller than all other men

Even in this far future time

You would tower over

All these ( Read more... )

Gold mouths cry with the green young ( Read more... )

I've been trying to read Sappho. So far this is the only poem I can completely make out, and only because it was in my Greek textbook last year.

Δέδυκε μεν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδεσ, μέσαι δὲ
νύκτεσ πάρα δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is the middle
Of the night, time passes,
And I sleep alone.

Sappho's Aeolian ( Read more... )

Some things that are helping me cope with the pain:

1. I joined twitter to follow Misha Collins. I kind of want to lick his mind. Look at this shit:


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My goal in life is to write impenetrable, incredibly elitist peotry like T.S. Eliot and then laugh at people who don't understand it.

( I really hope I conjugated these Latin verbs correctly )

I just got back from Cal Aggie Marching Band Freshman Retreat aka SCARY BRAINWASHING MINDFUCK INDOCTRINATION. I had no idea that band geeks drank so much. Also, playing second trumpet sucks. Obviously I have to play second because I'm a freshman, but after two years of being first chair playing the harmony SUCKS BALLS. And I have to memorize all ( Read more... )

So. I have listened to "Lost Souls" twice today and what stuck in my head was not the plot, or the team's attempts to deal with Tosh and Owen's deaths, or even the extreme cuteness of such lines as,

"You love coffee! Coffee and Jack!"

"My bike's got a bell on it!"

and

"Is Ianto moaning?
Oh yes!'''

No. I've just spent the past half hour trying to ( Read more... )