ECONOMICS: Menelaus
Miles Burrows
Personally, I never cared for the girl.
She wasn't really very much to look at
At close quarters. Yes, many of us
Had seen better in Corinth, let alone
Naucratis . . . what? . . . naturally, price
Came into it. The family feud
Was taken seriously. But most of all
The Trojan corn monopoly, you understand . . .
The Bosphorus blockade . . . our Black Sea trade
Was quite extensive, and a small country
Like Attica, with no internal resources
At all, depends ot a very large extent
On imports coming via the Dardanelles.
It meant something in those days. As to Helen . . .
Well, she provided a convenient rallying cry.
(Our propagandists did extremely well
With their material.) But I must point out
The Trojan War was quite a serious business.