[Newspoetry] Against Enchantment Let Us Chant

[DL Emerick]

Greek Tragedy and True Democracy.
 
I think of the plays of the Greeks,
not all of them, and not in details,
because I am no expert of a field,
but, I think of all of them, at once,
collectively, blurring, an impression.
 
I think of the Chorus against Heroes,
and find so refreshing Woody Allen
in Mighty Aphrodite and its singing,
standing against the story, explaining,
upsetting small Tragedy into Comedy.
 
A lesson could be learned, even so,
that the personality, however flaky,
still has something of decency to it,
that man in the small may be virtuous,
until strange ideas become a bighead.
 
The Chorus warns us, inhibitionally,
chastises and reproves, reproachingly,
the chasing after of a skirting idea,
the flirting with any being different,
than one you have settled into being.
 
The Chorus seems to say what is true,
by its reversion to Democratic unity:
the universal opinion that only warns
a person pursuing any strange action
that strange ways must lead nowhere.
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