#losing it about epic poetry in this chilli's tonight

[melodysoars]

maybe it's about how the edda says "more blest are the living than the lifeless, 'tis the living who come by the cow", and the odyssey says "I'd rather slave on earth than rule over the breathless dead", and gilgamesh says "although I should go in sorrow and in pain, with sighing and with weeping, still I must go" and sinuhe says "my throat burned and I said this is the taste of death, then lifted my heart and gathered my body again" and dante begins with "midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark" and Job ignores his wife's instruction to "curse God and die" and the Kalevala says "even a harp might be constructed of the bones of fishes" and Ovid ends audacious on "vivam."