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Over Ithaca

It's time to find another eponym

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For me and the psychiatrists,

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One from as good a neighborhood

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As Thebes or Mycenae.

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Don Juan would do.

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He and the late lord of this isle below are one,

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Wanting always something else.

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But custom calls for a Greek

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To complete the trinity of Tantalus and Sisyphus,

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So I nominate my host, once kind of this rock pile,

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Knowing his tale for what it is:

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A journey across error to anticlimax.

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