Hot News, Stale News by Stanley Moss | ||
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Thucydides tells us in an election year Pisistratus, the Athenian tyrant, wanting the protection of a god, got the biggest beautiful woman he could find, dressed her in silver and gold armor, proclaimed her the goddess Athena and drove through the streets of Athens with the goddess at his side. These days, every candidate wants to be photgraphed going to or coming from Jesus. One declared "Jesus is in my heart," but when he refused to stay the executions for a hundred or so, his Jesus was silent. Our presidential candidates,
STANLEY MOSS'S most recent book, Asleep in the Garden, New and Selected Poems, was published by the Seven Stories Press. A new book, The Last Judgment, will be published in February 2002. "Hot News, Stale News" first appeared in the American Poetry Review (May/June 2001)
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