originally posted 15 May 2022
I think I am smarter than Eurustheus,
Who sent Herakles on his labors.
After eleven times
When the hero went off on impossible missions
That mostly ought to have killed him
And he came back victorious?
I would have played it safe.
I would have set him a task that could not injure me.
I would not have sent him
To go to the Underworld
And bring back Kerberos
To show me.