He build his career
upon two cadavers,
one cut down in the bloom of youth
on a riverine battlefield in Mesopotamia,
the other in old age's wisdom
made to drink the silencing hemlock
in the city he himself would betray.
On these solid foundations,
which time's passing could not rot,
he built a Spartan mansion,
a pile of books that made
worthier peers' works crumble to dust,
and misconceptions to beguile aeons.
20.06.2021
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