On Athens 2/2
Straddled at the mouth of the port of Rhodes, it’s said there once stood the Colossus, letting triremes pass between its legs.
Once I was in Greece with my parents. With my white sun bleached hair I might have resembled an albino with my blood red nipples as an extra pair of misplaced eyes.
Wearing my T-Shirt and a pair of swimming goggles, I was set to swim between the legs of a Greek man.
However, on seeing — when navigating the murky waters of the Mediterranean Sea — his penis hanging out through the open fly of his white boxers, I changed my mind.
It would’ve been infeasible for the Ancient Greeks to build the Colossus in such a way that he was actually straddling a body of water. He must’ve been standing on land.
And now it’s just dust…
And the man whose legs I didn’t swim through after all, who didn’t have the sense even to put a pair of proper bathing shorts on,
He was no Helios.