Aeschylus with his Agamemnon.

Ovid,

Virgil,

All the way up to Camus

And beyond.

Kerouac,

Wolfe, Thomas, that is,

Chopin and Brecht,

And don’t forget about Garcia Marquez.

Hemingway with his whiskey,

Along with Jean Genet looking for the key,

Shirley Jackson and her Lottery,

And Hegesias’ lectures just might set you free.

Locke and Roth,

Sandburg and Eliot,

The farm and Kesey,

And all that fucking Greek tragedy.