Maria Rilke with your stuffy delicate mystic lyricism and precise imagery.
Joseph Conrad your ships and exotic locales of loneliness, moral corruption.
Who would have cared that we should be born
on the same day under the same star
Great Archers! Half Horse!
My Arrow still being sharpened
Still being prepared with the fire…
My hooves clicking sure of themselves…
And like Bellerophon, I carry the legacy on,
Let’s continue to slew the Monster Chimera!
But Great Bellerophon’s beware!
Bellerophon’s ego grew so great
that he determined to fly up to heaven
on Pegasus to join the immortal gods.
Pegasus threw off his rider and Bellerophon spent
the rest of his days wandering Earth,
rejected by gods and men, rejected by gods and men…
Cling not to false supersition
To claim seats beside wise men
O and fool!
don’t read soooo much
into your bloody Star Sign…