Face of femme fatale,
she soars across the sky,
lionhearted warrior,
asking all who catch her eye,
‘Tell me the creature,
with only one voice,
on all fours from morning,
two feet by noon
and three at night.’
Those that failed to answer,
served up as supper,
unable to see the monster,
they recognise as man.
Oedipus, saved from first fate,
finds another riddle,
still stands in...
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