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Excerpts from the poems of C.P. Cavafy (translated by Keeley/Sherrard)
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The poem gives voice to the love Temethos feels, a beautiful kind of love, worthy of him.
We’re completely broke—the two of us so poor that we’re down to sitting in the cheapest places.
That things in the Colony are not what they should be no one can doubt any longer.
I wallow in the taverns and brothels of Beirut. I didn’t want to stay in Alexandria. Tamides left me.
Of course he tries not to give himself away. But sometimes he almost doesn’t care.
People of Kommagini, let the glory of Antiochos, the beneficent king, be celebrated as it deserves.
The rare beauty of his face, the beauty of anomalous charm, with those ideal lips that bring sensual delight to the body loved.
Streets now unrecognizable, bustling night clubs now closed, theatres and cafes no longer there.
Wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
And so they meet secretly at night to discuss the family affairs of the Lagids.
If he saw and coveted a beautiful blue shirt in some store window, he’d sell his body for a dollar or two.
What’s the point of senators making laws now? Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.
Through fantasy, through hallucination, he tries to find his lips in the lips of other young men.
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
Alone like that for so many hours, he’d also begun to have disturbing thoughts about the immoral life he was living.
Mithridatis sent one of his officers to ask the soothsayer how much more wealth, how much more power, he’d accumulate in the future.
The dynasties born from the Macedonian Conquest cannot be kept going any longer.
For a week or so, sometimes longer, when he managed to escape those horrible late nights, he’d cool himself at the baths, and with a morning swim.
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