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March 4, 2008

Man Seeking Woman

Homeric Personal Add
Nick Olson

Sing, goddess, the beauty of Ol’s son Nikolaus, winsome and bewitching, sending down to the garden of Eros thousandfold women with his ravishing looks. Sing to me of the man of twists and turns, the gentle curves of his muscles; sing the radiance of his locks, gently bouncing in the wind, as when a lion spots a horned stag or wild goat and fluidly rushes to attack, its illustrious mane swaying with each step, so does the hair of Nikolaus fall about his shoulders, sleek, luxurious, and shining. Sing! goddess, of white-armed Nikolaus, with his creamy calves and alabaster thighs, whose redolent scent of ambrosia makes the red mist cloud women’s eyes. Tell of his pectorals, majestically accentuated by a single nipple and a silky coat of hair, gentle enough to provide the resting place of Aphrodite herself. His oxen eyes shine with the ebullience of Hebe, yet his beard reflects the timeworn sagacity of Nestor himself.

Recount, O muse, his feats and triumphs! Strapping his supple raw-hide sandals, he flies with wings of Hermes to defeat even the swiftest of men in a foot race to his next class. With the strength of Herakles, he lifts even the heaviest of backpacks, for men are much stronger in these days, though the backpack is inundated with book upon book, which no two men could carry, and yet he lifts it with ease, as when a soaring eagle swoops down from the dark clouds to earth to snatch some helpless and trembling hare nine times, and on the tenth time clutches the helpless prey furiously in its talons, so Nikolaus snatches up his burdensome backpack to carry it across campus.

Whom, goddess, whom does this breathtaking Adonis seek? A woman beautiful, tall, skilled at weaving lovely things, who enjoys watching dawn rise with her rosy red fingers, the enchantment of a lyre, a night of epic poetry, and pouring out libations.

Preferably non-smoker.

1 comment:

Abecedarius Rex said...

bonus dormitat Homerus