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Odyssey​​

 

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What do we know about the sirens very little

 

except their song

 

though sung by women

 

was written for men 

 

so it doesn’t work on women

 

and maybe if the sirens had a different audience

 

if they had learned to sing for themselves

 

they wouldn’t sound like monsters

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Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline. He is the author of A Reading from the Book of Panic, available from Lavender Ink, and several chapbooks of poems