PYRRHA

Pyrrha 1 (Erotic): Horace, arr. S. Gardner

Which slim boy soaked in liquid perfumes
is fucking you amidst many a rose
deep inside an erotic grotto, Pyrrha?

For whom are you tieing up you sexy golden hair,

simple in you elegance? Shit! how often will he cry about
being dumped by you and the gods, and in his inexperience

he will be stunned by seas made rough
by your dank wind.

Now he is fucking you, ready to beleive you are a porn star,
and hoping you will always be a hoe, and always
within his budget, unaware of your uncontrollable
flattulance. Screwed are they, to whom  

you appear fit before they fuck you. The sacred brothel wall
with its pornographic tablets, points out that I have hung up
semen drenched clothes,

to the powerful god of the semen.

Pyrrha 2 (Communist): Horace, arr. G. Rasputin, jr.

Which slim, capitalist boy drenched in Marshall Aid
        embraces you among the many Soviet-red roses
deep inside the welcoming Kremlin, Pyrrha?

        For whom do you inhibit your Marxism,  

simple in its eloquence? Alas, how many times
        will Reagan weep at broken trust and trade, and gods that have changed,
and, inexperienced, he will be amazed at Siberian tundra,

        made rough by white winds,  

who now enjoys you, Lenin's one, trustfully,
        who hopes that you will always be undermined, always unarmed,
unaware of the treachorous bomb.

        Wretched are those  

for whom you shine un-Stalinised. The sacred wall
        with its votive propaganda points out that I

have hung up my wet worker's overalls
        to the powerful gods of the Warsaw Pact.

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