TRAGIC Poem: FATE OF THE MUSES, by Erick Garske

the nine daughters of Zeus
who inspired Homer and Aesop
traveled from the shores of the Mediterranean
to the beaches of Malibu
to cast their screenplays to the ethos
in Hollywood.

but now, the Muses
trapped in the Getty Villa
between the rolling Pacific Palisades fire
and the pocket of the offshore wave
ponder their fates.

The smoldering brimstone
rises from Hades
consuming the city of Angels
with an appetite
of Vesuvius consuming Pompeii.

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