a remix of words and phrases from Samuel Butler's translation of Homer's Odyssey
by AMY CRUMP
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Thus
humour
placed
in the hands of
women
slipped quietly out and
sang sweetly
like the
twittering of a swallow
turned colour
as they heard it;
Then
thundered loudly as
it had gone right through
them, and
pierced
the
daylight
with song