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Ode to Midas’s Lover
Life Was a Willow and More — #9
1 min readDec 7, 2023
Midas’s lover had no name in the legends.
But I will tell you her story now. She was in love with a man who had always thought he was too good for this world.
Midas entreated the gods to grant him the power to turn everything to gold — and of course they gifted him because he was a man of virtue and prestige.
Or he had once been.
But he didn’t think of his power as he handled his beautiful lover that first night. Her open mouth was a scream as she slowly began to turn into gold before him.
Welcome to my tribute for the 3-year anniversary of Taylor Swift’s album Evermore. This is an ode to “coney island,” the ninth song of the album.
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