David Beckham: Greek God?
Apparently.
Britain's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy was inspired by David Beckham's Achilles' tendon injury to write this verse titled "Achilles."
"Myth's river -- where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boy flowed on, his name on its lips."Without him, it was prophesied, they would not take Troy.
"Women hid him, concealed him in girls' sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs...
"But when Odysseus came, with an athlete's build, a sword and a shield, he followed him to the battlefield, the crowd's roar,
"And it was sport, not war, his charmed foot on the ball...
"But then his heel, his heel, his heel..."
As one wit wrote, can't wait to read the poem about Toger Tiger Woods.
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"As one wit wrote, can't wait to read the poem about Toger Woods."
Missed the 'd' in Toger. Or was that a Freudian slip?