Ode to Oedipus: The Horrors of Hindsight
We can't all be Kreon, There has to be an Oedipus. Close your eyes, don't blind them. Jocasta's brooches, irridescent; caecus, can you find them? Identity is frivolous, use your hands, don't bind…
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