When Orpheus walked beneath the trees
all the leaves were Eurydices
when Orpheus looked into a well
he saw the skies of hell
when Orpheus took up his lyre
he saw his funeral pyre
on which the Maenads tossed
his scattered limbs and hissed
"Everything he did was wrong:
love and theory, wife and song"
yet when they picked up his head
they kissed his mouth and said
"All the lies these lips told
kept us from ever growing old—
now keep them wet eternally."
And Orpheus saw them throw it in the sea