Complications And Complexes Poem by gershon hepner

“You cannot see exactly where you are
in your misery, ” Tiresias tells the king.
Some on foot reach crossroads, some by car,
all via complications complexes can bring.

Simon Goldhill writes (“What’s in a Wall? ” in Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature: Essays in Honor of From a Zeitlin, ed. Chris Krau. Simon Goldhill, Helene P. Foley, Jas Elsner (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2007,132) writes:

For the family of Oedipus, ‘where you are’ is an insistent question. ‘Nor do you see where you are in your misery, ’ as Sophocles’ Tiresias taunts the king (OT 367) .


7/31/08