04-10-2025, 08:39 AM
mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Love your enemy, said the man
who got nailed to a tree by them.
For all Jewry they hatched a plan -
those tan-summer-suited men
over coffees in Berchtesgaden
humming Schwarzbraunes Mädel
on the summer breeze,
like birds in the trees -
with the patriotic love of soldier,
artist, architect, cadet, farmer,
textual critic. Not a single impolitic
mathematician, proving Plato right.
A man who doesn’t know geometry
can’t tell wrong from right.
Love your enemy, said the man
who got nailed to a tree by them.
For all Jewry they hatched a plan -
those tan-summer-suited men
over coffees in Berchtesgaden
humming Schwarzbraunes Mädel
on the summer breeze,
like birds in the trees -
with the patriotic love of soldier,
artist, architect, cadet, farmer,
textual critic. Not a single impolitic
mathematician, proving Plato right.
A man who doesn’t know geometry
can’t tell wrong from right.