"2 / The Cure"
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1) "Yet we must try." Ink, pencil. On verso of a "Rigor Vitae" manuscript.
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2)"As to my face." Pencil, draft
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3)"If I am human still . . . . Taki run over by a friends his own truck." Ink, draft, one sketch.
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4) "Of an incommunicable energy." Ink, pencil, draft paper.
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8) "Fall the Shadow." Ink, bond paper.
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11) "2. THE CURE." Pencil
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12) "2. THE CURE." Ink.
Part 2 of the poem, "The Cure," is set in Athens, Greece, and particularly in the Royal Park--known officially since 1920 as the Royal Garden. It describes the meeting with "Taki" in the Royal Park in Athens. Langdon Hammer writes that Taki: "a sweet young man who’d been a sexual partner for [Tony] Parigory and then Merrill that spring, had been run over and killed while taking a nap in the shade of another driver’s truck" (321.)