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                B.N. OAKMAN

                 Athens Training

He invades the Piraeus-Athens train

neither shaven nor bearded

wearing parts of two old suits

stained with the sweat of years

a noisome Atlas

bearing a battered wooden radiogram

a leaking car battery

a tin bucket

all these roped to his body

as he barges along an aisle

momentum enhanced by his burdens

blasting static and bouzouki

bludgeoning sensibilities

swearing and damning god

importuning only with awfulness

 

but our offerings for relative grace

clang in his bucket

a peal of bells on Christmas morning

as we clatter to the clamorous metropolis

roaring at the ruins of Periclean harmony.