dear philosophers
men and women of letters
artists, poets, prophets:

I would like
to commission you
to write me an Aeneid.
I have a son now

I love your former
iconoclasm and so forth
of course

but most of our images are broken
now anyway
we can start over
with how to be a good boy

let's face it
the youth need something
that smacks of duty
and not of killing the father