57.

When Venus moved her headquarters, she sighed

And took a second, called out Paris

In answer to some other question

Regarding Helen and Homer, maybe

Some arcane pursuit of the oral

Tradition, proofs of authorship, blind

Tests, but, being the goddess of love,

She got to decide where the fashion houses

Would form and what were the laws of perfume.

Provence could no longer sustain what

Greece had begun, in myth at least.

Exhausted by subordinate clauses, she got down

To business, warned Cupid never to end

Another sonnet sequence: time to get real.