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Life & Death with an Actress
by Barry Gifford

Your idea

     of love

is

     Duel in the Sun

     your ideal

woman

Kleist's Penthesilea

     who killed

          Achilles

     then ate

          him

Spared now the burden

          of having to die

               to prove

                         my love

     I hereby abdicate

          this role

in which I was

                    involuntarily

     if not unwittingly

                              cast

     Take pity

               if you can

                              on

                    my replacement

               may he

                         be agile

                    as Achilles

               but fearful.

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