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Sep 30 2013 On Cloud of Drifting Time
Again a Socrates
Holds a cup brimful of
New, raw, lethal hemlock!
Everything’s mute an’ still!
Everyone’s spineless, dazed.
And lo, the cup trembles,
As the venom trembles!Athens, 2008 © M. Syre
(Silence of the Piano Sings)