6 SEPTEMBER 1963, Page 27

Antaeus

The loved enemy. Matter of epic. But if you like winning, cut out all epic style. Clutch wind, height, sun. Feint, undercut, Decoy, venom your weapon, shoot first; and all the while Cant filial piety, modus vivendi, fair Negotiation. But ,distract his eyes. Then seize The howling reprobate, flex, hoist; and high in air.

Skinflint him out like picnic litter into the breeze. Loved ones are earthborn. Defeat, annihilate (Yes. even th,at), all you do is abet Their back spring to the green earth. You must uncreate, Unrear, unbear, Micarry, unbeget.

See, if you wheedle for something less in the end, What bestrides the road, grinning, round the