Sunday, December 6, 2009

I. CVI DONO LEPIDVM NOVVM LIBELLVM?

Who's gonna get this
clever
new book,

this little book I just
polished dry
with pumice?

You are, Cornelius.

For you deemed
—even then,
when you

(alone of the
Italians) dared
to document

our whole age on
a meagre three
pages

...
learned pages
...

...
labour-intensive pages—

my nothings somethings.

For this reason, have
this whatever
of a book;

maybe (please my
guardian virgin)
it'll hang

around for
not a few
years.

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