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# My Weariness of Epic Proportions
- URL: https://poetry101.love/my-weariness-of-epic-proportions/
- Published: 2020-11-06T06:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-02T19:26:59.000Z
- Description: By Charles Simic
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Charles Simic, Morning Memory, Re-mything, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

I like it when  
Achilles  
Gets killed  
And even his buddy Patroclus -  
And that hothead Hector -  
And the whole Greek and Trojan  
Jeunesse dorée  
Are more or less  
Expertly slaughtered  
So there's finally  
Peace and quiet  
(The gods having momentarily  
Shut up)  
One can hear  
A bird sing  
And a daughter ask her mother  
Whether she can go to the well  
And of course she can  
By that lovely little path  
That winds through  
The olive orchard.

Simic, Charles. [New and Selected Poems, 1962-2012](https://www.google.com/books/edition/New%5Fand%5FSelected%5FPoems/T4YC7FNGeNUC?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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### Why I chose this poem

This poem feels edgier to me that I think it needs to. It certainly echos my feelings about these stories of slaughter we tell, over and over. I apprecieate the way that the anonymous women, roles without names, are for a moment safe.