Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Poem 158: Empedocles in Aetna

DID Empedocles
fling himself into the craters of Aetna
them fiery bowls of Hephaistos
 to prove
he was a god?

I woll nat say that hit was so
but rather I woll say
"krater -->  gradalus --> bowl"

If such was his motivation
 did he prove it after all?
Consult Diogenes Laertius, Vitae:

"One of his sandals
was blown back out
settling the matter."

But which way?

DAMN YOU
WHICH WAY
















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