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Over Ithaca

It's time to find another eponym

For me and the psychiatrists,

One from as good a neighborhood

As Thebes or Mycenae.

Don Juan would do.

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

Wanting always something else.

But custom calls for a Greek

To complete the trinity of Tantalus and Sisyphus,

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

Knowing his tale for what it is:

A journey across error to anticlimax.

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