The Ancient Modern
Heir of Prophecies, Part II / Joshua Alan Sturgill
As you ponder your reply, the Sphinx
invites you to consider the Gates of Thebes,
old and ornate, dating from the city’s founding
with minor renovations in a more contemporary style.
Consider, too, that your intense attraction
to your lover are, similarly, evolved manifestations
of ancient reproductive instincts; your hope,
whatever its current object, is an acquired, beneficial
blindness to predatory fears; and even your thoughts
(frantically forming an answer) are bound by laws
of chemistry.
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