The Argo is rotting on Corinth Beach,
the timbers lifting like waves, rising like asps,
the heroes have departed,
the women abandoned.
It is time to take stock
of shifting loyalties and betrayals,
admit we have been fleeced.
The great have declared themselves deities,
dividing up the loot in daylight on the streets,
as if it is the will of the gods
and we may have once agreed,
acquiesced to the logic of the world,
but it is time to reassess,
find our own boat-builders perhaps
or dare to imagine
that we no longer need
great men on the prows.
The rotting plank is about to fall
From: Leach, Roland, “Argo” in Westerly, Volume 55:2, November 2010, p. 33.
(https://westerlymag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/55.2.pdf)
Date: 2010
By: Roland Leach (1957- )
From Troubles of The World 
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