The Trojan Horse

     This is the story about the two rival gangs the Trojans and the Greeks.

      While Menelaus was away,

      Paris stole his stash and ran away.

      “Where my Helen!”, cried Menelaus when he returned.

       (He calls heroin ‘Helen’ as a codeword)

      He rings up Paris and says,

      “Give me back my Helen you rotten swine!”

     “Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!”

      Shouts Paris on the other line.

      Now Menelaus all pissed and all’

      Calls his other gang members namely;

      ‘Machine Gun’ Achilles, ‘Schemer’ Odysseus, ‘Ice Pack’

      Patrolucus, Ajax and Agamemnon.

      He told each one of them “let’s start a gang war”

      And they all replied “Death to the Trojans!”

      Paris also called up his buddies one of them called,

      Hulky Hector, ‘Machine Gun’ Achilles’ nemesis.

      And thus started the gang war between the two gangs,

      Called the Trojan War by the common man.

     On both turfs, many gangsters died,

     And bent cops like Apollo, Poseidon, Athena, Zeus etc joined either side.

     And the greatest mobster of all was ‘Machine Gun’ Achilles.

     Many kills in his name,

    Added to his fame

    But everyone knows that men of the mob don’t live long,

    Soon it was Achilles’ turn to be pushing up the daises.

   One day while Achilles was away,

   His best friend Patrolucus got in the way,

   Of Hulky Hector.

   Now Hector didn’t like no wise guys muscling on his turf.

   And what’s next,

   Patrolucus ends up dead.

   When Achilles hears of the news

   He goes red with rage

   “He’ll soon be six feet under.”

    And then the two mobsters confront each other the dark alley,

   Knowing that only one of them would walk away.

   In the end the winner triumphs.

   But Paris happens to see the gunfight.

   He sees Achilles pump his buddy Hector full of lead,

   Hector looking like a piece of Swiss cheese, full of holes

   Paris blinded by rage picks up his sniper rifle and takes aim’

   But in his haste,

   He don’t shoot Achilles in the face,

   It hits his heel.

   Achilles screams in pain,

   But screams in vain.

   And falls to the ground dead as a doornail.

   Nine months pass and there is still no clear winner.

   And then ‘Schemer’ Odysseus comes up with a plan’

   “Why don’t we send in our own man?

   Call him the ‘Trojan Horse’ I say.”

   And within a month the spy becomes one of the Trojans top men,

  The Trojans have complete trust on him.

  In the eleventh month the ‘Trojan Horse’ leads the Trojans straight into a         trap.

  Where the Greeks pumped them full of lead.       

                                                                    Siddharth Almeida