The Human Stain
Hey, when he came,
he was finished.
Evidence.
Smoking come.
Nineteen ninety-eight was
the summer of sanctimony.
After the fall of Communism and
before the horrors of terrorism,
there was a brief interlude when
the nation was preoccupied by cocksucking.
This is Coleman Silk, powerful Dean
of Faculty and professor of Classics
at Athena College in western Massachusetts.
Educated at NYU and Oxford
Coleman taught in England before
returning to the U.S. To become
One of the first Jews to teach in
a Classics department anywhere in America.
When he was appointed Dean of Athena,
Coleman took the poulky
sleepy-hollow type college
and dragged it, kicking and screaming,
from mediocrity to excellence.
Of course, in the process,
he made a good many enemies.
Sing, O Gods,
of the wrath of Achilles
And finally, “the persecuting spirit”
caught up with Coleman.
All of European literature springs
from a fight, a barroom brawl, really.
And what was Achilles
so angry about?
Well, he and King Agamemnon
were quarrelling over a woman,
a young girl and her body
and the delights of sexual rapacity.
Achilles, the most hypersensitive
fighting machine
in the history of warfare.
Achilles, who, because of his rage
at having to give up the girl,
isolates himself defiantly
outside the very society
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