Piraeus
By John Sakkis
"Mad—bad—and dangerous to know" bore George Gordon to the pageant
of his bleeding heart in Philhellenic pirated by radicals reaching further and
further to Cephalonia devoted to his fortune and the shaft that paid the
brigade a remedy of bleeding heroism on hearing the news the Carbonari
dreaming The Two Foscari to beat the row and lasting eulogy "she walks in
beauty" at the crack of bark the bloody news spoke for many writing on
a rock "Byron is dead" and agreed to act as the agent on VIRONOS he
became a name not an island and subjugated to "Byron is dead" "so, we'll
go no more a-roving" immense and lasting.
Copyright Credit: John Sakkis, "Piraeus" from The Islands. Copyright © 2015 by John Sakkis. Reprinted by permission of Nightboat Books.
Source: The Islands (Nightboat Books, 2015)