'The Other Alexandria' Poem by Antonis J. Kazantzoglou

In the center of Attica the other Alexandria
more bitter mor Kavafyesque more chaste more alone
projecting a Venetian lumpen frame
a place hostile where gods and goddesses reside
a crystal pit
with tension
with aches
with nations
with trollops
with demonstrators
a coral pit
a grazed sun where young men and women stand
gazing at a fleeting lumpen wind
the leper the blind the holy the happy
in the vast of sky the other Alexandria.

Forgotten, even by God forgotten.

Even God forgot the other Alexandria