Whatever Happened?

What happened? To the land of Oedipus tragedy is nothing new. Do the gods of the Olympus still thirst for war? Do they try to hypnotize The cattle-rearing youth By displaying the neutron bomb? Remember the time before Alexander's Expedition of triumph? Remember too the cursed centuries That followed? Will Agamemnon ever come back? Kill him if he does. Will Clytemnestra be a party To the murderous act? Kill her outright, if she is. She screams, the sister Of the son who killed his mother Who had killed her father- That scream reverberates over the sea And on the hill. When the night shrieks, The tongue splits. When the murder cry is heard It splits the ear. O Hellas that seeks to be reborn, Hellas that had once left her husband for good, And, having had enough of it, Now returns from her lover. To blind Homer You are still the beloved daughter. Penelope welcoming Odysseus Who had sailed home in the gentle wind. The dog still remembering his master. Where have they all vanished?