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The Maury Show, Featuring: The King of Gods himself


How can I make

My show more entertaining?

Who should I invite?

What idea should I take?

Would an actor do?

Nah, too cliche.

A singer, an artist, a writer?

No, no, no!

I need someone bigger,

Someone badder,

Someone whom everyone knows;

The World's biggest tricker.

I've got it!

A name that meets all my criteria!

I look in the phone book

To see just what the King of God's number may be.

 

It's better than I expected.

Every seat is taken,

Filled with Gods and mortals alike. 

The anger in the air easily detected.

A quick sweep of the crowd

Confirms his suspicions,

Not a single male is present.

Zeus had persistently disavowed

Any relation to 

The surplus of women who looked

At Zeus with utter disgust.

I was then given my cue.

 

I tear open the envelope and read,

"Zeus, with Themis's 6 kids,

You are the father."

Hera looked on with dread. 

"When it comes to 

Mnesoyne's 9 muses, you are the father."

I skim the list, every result is the same.

Whatever shall I do?

 

"Is there anyone here

Whom Zeus did not 

Have associations with?"

A single hain goes in the air.

It was not the torch necklace 

That gave her identity away,

But the three-headed Cerbrus

Asleep on her lap looking stressless.

 

Persephone looked upon the women,

Scratched behinf Cerbrus's ears, and said

"And you wonder why I am happy 

Living with Hades in the Kingdom of Demons.

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