On assembling a Homeric football team: “I know who'd be thrown off the team as captain. Agamemnon. He's a disaster as a leader!”

What happens in this world happens in gold,
the metal in our dreams that signals immortality
bright fame, undying fire, the hour dipped

Somehow, the two of us sit in a café
bordering the park. Its grass succumbs
again to chronic green, and I see,