Nonbeliever

Let's workshop this bitch!

Nonbeliever 

He used to laugh at the idea 
of “just some chick, fuckin’ 
Helen,” inciting war—until 

for himself he confronted 
a beauty choking enough 
for him, a man yet to see her 

in the flesh, to weep for all 
those whose love across 
her life she ends up refusing.

*This poem is unpublished (still very hot from the loins).

Sculpture: “Helen of Troy,” by Antonio Canova