07-21-2023, 03:57 PM
Who knows
From the earth we came.
Into the earth we go.
Neither Plato nor Socrates
knew more about it than we know.
Nor the quaint aboriginal elder,
the Sentinelese with his bow,
nor the PhD from Boston,
the book writing Igbo,
the bullfighting Catalan
who wears it on his shoulder
as the bullring’s air grows colder
know.
From the earth we came.
Into the earth we go.
Neither Plato nor Socrates
knew more about it than we know.
Nor the quaint aboriginal elder,
the Sentinelese with his bow,
nor the PhD from Boston,
the book writing Igbo,
the bullfighting Catalan
who wears it on his shoulder
as the bullring’s air grows colder
know.