Blessed Ω, 2022
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Blessed Ω
Makaria, daughter of Hades -the Byzantines mention no mother- crouched down in a dirty corner covered in glass noodle memories Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί τῷ πνεύματι, Athenian funerary taxes sacral sacrifices thoughts pulling strings strings pulling thoughts soft and palpable was her spirit her name meaning goddess of a blessed death more merciful than Thanatos greatly honoured by Athenians unknown in Berlin. Remember just centuries ago, exceeding both fashion of courtesans and commoners, there came our fellow Macaroni affected creature of neuter gender a mix of Continent and England heir to a worldly shift proto-pasta capitalist commodity fetishist analog nomad to the South and said ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν… the sensorial kingdom of blessed μελο-ΜΑΚΑΡΟΝΑ raised in the East by Holy Oil-Honey-Semolina, cousins of H.H. Theodora Highness to some, Holiness to others via Hesychius the quiet, incidental siblings of Makaría, served at the empire’s funeral parades now delicacies to the birth of Jesus, an oversized Jesus in Napoli in the corner of a tiny street skin and dough mixed in equal parts. And thus in History, somewhere between East and West between North and South lies in the Zwischenräume ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν. |
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Copyright Athanasios Anagnostopoulos
