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| ***BIO*** Doug Tanoury was born and raised in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. His work has been published widely both in print and in electronic form. A number of his poetry collections are available in ebook form at:
http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html Doug’s poetry has been the subject of features in the New York Times Online and The Detroit News. One of his poems also won Honorable Mention in the Detroit Metro Times “Get Lit” special issue of 2006. |
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| Agamemnon Has Aids |
| by Doug Tanoury |
| I met a man who wore
The death mask of Agamemnon And he told me “That death Like every other moment of your life Is something that happens to you I came in contact with the body fluids Of Iphigenia without surgical mask Or gloves and I had unprotected sex With Achilles and made love to Clytemnestra without a condom” And all of Mycenae whispers Every woman’s husband And every man’s wife In irony fitting Greek drama The hero home from Ilium To bedsores lesions and conspicuous Consumption ravaged now and stricken With the strictly modern malady That has turned him suddenly old Like King Priam and just as sad |
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| June 2007 |
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