Adam Alonzi

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“Alcibiades” by Adam Alonzi

Submitted to Contest #257

Scene I: Cutting through the Aegean under a cloudless sky, Alcibiades stands at the bow of a red-eyed trireme, arms outspread, flamboyantly clothed in Persian attire.  Kūfa, an emissary of the Hellespontine satrap, anxiously scans for unfriendly ships from the stern. Gulls cry as the Phrygian coast fills the horizon. Alc: Those men say they will die happy,Content in having, for a span, lived in full.How noble! To leave what is their unknown.Yes, the world they had has passed and is gone.So their farewells are in truth a relief:A mere de...

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