Tuesday, May 17, 2016

About this Life Thing... - poem

Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com

About this Life Thing…

“What we mean to establish is a school for the Lord’s service”

- St. Benedict

For Cody

Your final exams are not final, you know
They’re only markings on a calendar
A cluster of large numbers and small grids
Shapelets that have no meaning in themselves

For Shakespeare will push rhyme beyond all time
And Euclid charts his pi without a date
Caesar does not count days before he writes
“Omnis Gallia in partes tres divisa est”

Because

Schedules are useful things, but life itself
Is a joyful study without an end


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