Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Ode to Diogenes


It is fitting that the thoughts
Of Plato’s mad Socrates
Slave freer than the master
Ancient coinage debaser
Exiled Sinopean tub denizen
Cynic seeking honest men
Have all gone to dust
And only come to us
In other’s writings read
Or mouths of Egyptian dead

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