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to read about the government scandal
on the front page of the morning paper
hung up on a wire with clothespins,
beneath which, on the vendor's plastic table,
are stacked the rows of pornographic
comic books whose covers work
their variations on last night's fantasies.The comic books, like John Wilmot's account of the Trojan war's aftermath, involve sex and violence -- though the modern pairing of those two nouns tends to be more fantasized, less realistic, than either "Grecian Kindness" or the Homeric epics.
John Wilmot's poem "Grecian Kindness" can be found in "The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester." Harvard University Press. J.D. McClatchy's poem "The News" is from his book "Hazmat." Knopf. Copyright © 2002 by J.D. McClatchy.
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