Did We Really Think that They
Would Give Her Body to Him?
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse
Eurydice was dead. Come on. Just soul
Is all she was by then. So why would he
Expect some wonder from the deepest hole
Of anywhere, that cavern, Death? When she
Appeared from in that chasm moving toward
Him, Orpheus was wrong to think the gods
Would give him back the thighs that he adored.
I mean, consider it. What were the odds
Divinity would intervene in such
A case since it was only poet’s love?
It wasn’t like a god would feel a touch
Of pity for him. Gods are far above
Such caring. They do only selfish stuff.
She was dead, 
less than a bit of fluff.