The new Odyssey concordance
This is not the Odyssey
And I am not Homer
And you are not Odysseus
And this is not Troy
or Ithaca
or even Sparta
malakas
I am not waiting
a day
much less a year
much less fifteen
for you to make up
your mind and come home
from wherever
There is no Calypso
and no one’s a cyclops
or a siren
or a bag of wind
and there are no lotus eaters
or six-headed monsters
at least not where we live
Yes, we do have a housekeeper
and a son
and an olive tree bed
The gods are not angry
only I
and by the way there were suitors
and I slept with them all
