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“Costis is back.”

This is ignoring all the intricate political and tragic plots that actually lead up to this series of events. 

(To assist with my unruly handwriting, the text is written out below)  Panel 1- Ion (Out of view): Your majesty, will you please stop sulking and come get dressed? Panel 2- Gen: Do you realise, Ion, that all my friends are taller than me now?                Ion (OOV): Your maj-  Panel 3- Gen: No, seriously, y’know SOPHOS used to be shorter than me? And now he’s a damned tree! Then there’s Costis, Aris, Teleus-               Ion (OOV): (is teleus really your friend tho?) Panel 4- Gen: All of you peacocks are taller, even Helen and Heiro! The last time I had a friend my height was -  was… Get Costis. Panel 5- Costis: You want me to kidnap you a short friend.               Gen (OOV): Yeh. But say it’s revenge. Make a hand pun. Be cool. 

I took a class in college on Writing Poetry with Elinor Wilner.  Wilner’s “writing” class involved ten times as much reading and I still have every mimeographed poem that she handed out. Like my copy of Beowulf, I probably can’t find them, but I know they are somewhere upstairs. 

 Other writing teachers assigned quatrains or sestinas. Wilner said, “Read these poems by twenty different poets all of them focusing on animals and then write any kind of poem you want that shows me an animal.”