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Maria Menshenina - Alcestis

from Nekyia by Dmitri Kourliandski, Dimitris Yalamas, Elena Nemkova

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Alcestis

(Alcestis is a young woman, the wife of Admetus, the King of Pherae; she is a beloved daughter, wife, and mother. She has agreed to descend into Hades instead of her husband. The audience hears a monolog of Alcestis who has been buried alive. According to Euripides, Heracles is expected to save her by conquering the god of death. However, Heracles is nowhere in sight. Alcestis has only 50 minutes left to live)

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I have left
for a distant
land
of red sounds
into the earth
of ailing colors
into the realm
of torn up smells
under the sky
that holds no
water
under the earth
that has no
sky
under the water
where there is no
earth
to the realm
where
even
emptiness
does not exist
I the disgraced
Queen
who has
sacrificed
her life
for the sake
of earthly
love
for a man

summer
in my homeland –
and hounds
in sleep are flying

the moon
waning
mad
possessed
scribbles
for me
the news
on the crumbling
furniture
of the palace:
gold
an omen
of parting
silver
an omen
of sorrow
the purple
the usual
omen
of death

summer
in my homeland

cramped up

all furniture
should have long
been covered
with cloth

stifling

the dead
should have
long
been carried out of the room

it is dark

the dishes
should have
long
been buried –


earth
is bleeding
in a cup

summer
in my homeland –

angels
in sleep
are howling

Heracles
will not come
I do not believe
the oracles

here
I shall remain
and shall wake up
twenty-five
centuries
later
in a common
grave
of a common
woman
clad in common
clothes
and
shall die
a common
death
following
the prescribed
50 minutes
of agony
and
I shall be
the disgraced
Queen
who has sacrificed
her life
for the sake
of earthly
love
for a man
and
all shall be forgotten
and
all shall be forgotten by you
and
all shall be forgotten by you forever

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from Nekyia, released March 15, 2019

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