The wind still blows from Hisarlik You know from the first Cinemascope frame We now take leave of the Western THE GREEKS AND TROJANS DECIDE Cut to Helen's bedroom, where NOBODY ASKED PARIS . . . He tries on one of Helen's gowns "TIME TO SEE MENELAUS AND DIE!" Paris frantic holds his head, notices the helmet, APHRODITE The helmet's over the little guy's head IT'S IN HOMER, FOLKS Paris (our boy, that is) wins the flip. Spear's "APHRO-DI-TEE! DINNER'S READY!" Love goddess grabs erstwhile love object by scruff FOR SOME, Back on Olympus, the shrimp is in Love's lap literally: FOR OTHERS, Our hero pulls down a cloud like a shade; The lights on the city walls cast rippling pools of light |
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*Not to be confused with that Stanley Kubrick movie with all the boring classical stuff on the soundtrack. |
NOW BACK TO OUR FEATURE Black and white a little longer, Odysseus shoves the clip home in his Walther PPK A pre-title map of Troy city and nation Hey King Priam Now we need young lovers, a pair is what's expected This didn't begin as something exceptional The complications complicate, as complications do Odysseus: Hello Olympus, hello Athena We now turn our attentions to Achilles, mighty man I'm mad (he's mad) Let's quickly return to the plot we left floating, Ranks of bronze and black and blue And they set Troy alight and they bust the gates in The wind still blows from Hisarlik |