helen of troy on the affair (vii)
Maria Zoccola
Musée National Gustave Moreau: Helen at the Scaean Gate, Gustave Moreau
on the night i knew was our last, we sat down to a feast in the smoking section of the perkins beside the city walls, which differed from the perkins in my town only in the number of dead men who ate there. the air con was running pretty good, stiffing up the hair on my shins and souping the windows thick enough to hide what the sky was doing outside, a mean mess of clouds tinting themselves yellow and gray and …