08-18-2016, 01:05 AM
I kinda did? I at least tried to keep the sense of rhythm.
There really isn't. Thus the point of the poem. Once Marcos got deposed, he was effectively crippled -- never allowed back home, lupus -- until he died about three years later. But of course, Marcos was still filthy rich, and he got some support from all his American friends (or, at least, some omerta), so in that sense, I think, the parallel fails. What I was going for was that the two fell because of hubris -- Bellerophon, in trying to reach the gods, Marcos, in, well, the whole shebang -- and not really that both were unseated at the apex of their power, since I consider Bellerophon's greatest act (as per the stories, I think) to have been the chimera-slaying, as Marcos's act his first term. Although at that point by a lot of accounts he was already a scoundrel (one of the most painful controversies unearthed by this whole Heroes' Cemetery shebang was his faking of military records, which probably stemmed from his first presidential campaign), at least he was a limited one, at most he was an Odysseus. Still, I get your point, and I'm sure there's a better myth out there to jump from -- I'm just a bit too inexperienced to really get that yet, perhaps.
There really isn't. Thus the point of the poem. Once Marcos got deposed, he was effectively crippled -- never allowed back home, lupus -- until he died about three years later. But of course, Marcos was still filthy rich, and he got some support from all his American friends (or, at least, some omerta), so in that sense, I think, the parallel fails. What I was going for was that the two fell because of hubris -- Bellerophon, in trying to reach the gods, Marcos, in, well, the whole shebang -- and not really that both were unseated at the apex of their power, since I consider Bellerophon's greatest act (as per the stories, I think) to have been the chimera-slaying, as Marcos's act his first term. Although at that point by a lot of accounts he was already a scoundrel (one of the most painful controversies unearthed by this whole Heroes' Cemetery shebang was his faking of military records, which probably stemmed from his first presidential campaign), at least he was a limited one, at most he was an Odysseus. Still, I get your point, and I'm sure there's a better myth out there to jump from -- I'm just a bit too inexperienced to really get that yet, perhaps.