Jocasta: Wife and Mother. Brian Aldiss
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JOCASTA: WIFE AND MOTHER
Brian Aldiss
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Version: 2014-11-12
For JASON
my Anglo-Greek grandson
with
hopes for his new life
and for his generation
She was not unprincipled. In many respects
she was a ‘Good Woman’. But love and lust
silenced her. She could have spoken.
She did not speak. So the trap was sprung.
From then on, decline was inevitable
and a kingdom was lost.
We all face similar crises
wherein we are made or broken.
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The flowers on the hillside were dying in the August heat. They crunched under Jocasta’s naked tread, spines of Skylokremida, crisp remains of Agriolitsa. Lizards scuttled away from her feet. It was said in the city that where the queen trod, clumps of yellow