2.

Hegel lectured
On Socrates long after
The Peloponnesian war was waged
Against syrup-thirsty creatures
An embargo on molasses

So Thucydides might compose
His illegible "History"
Terrible handwriting
A scrap of papyrus

*

The Rhine where Hegel
Drowned, dragged under by
Several volumes of Petrarch
(Aie! save but the parchment!)
He could not bear to part
With

Now both their apostrophes
Punctuate Dante's eulogy
Transmigration of soul into
Apostrophes, commas
Flowers, mould spores

 

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