LPiA-25 Nov. 9

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'A circle centred everywhere - such is God i.e. Zeus -
with perimeter nowhere', said Empedocles,
he learning this from Anaxagoras,
and he from the Persians (Oh, please!
the Greeks didn't form spontaneously. The Lorax
didn't exist before Dr Seuss.)
And perhaps the Persians borrowed from the Buddhists
of Achemenid India through the Evening News
of the day, or ascetic nudists
tired of mosquito bites on abdomen and thorax
in a hot country. With their Sphinxian questions
before Sophocles, 
they'd borrowed in turn
from the old Persian myths, gods and demons that never learn,
which the Persians may have partially borrowed from the Assyrians
watching Babylon burn.
The Assyrians pilfered from the Babylonians
what the Babylonians had filched from the Sumerians
and the Sumerians from the first humans
to have seen the Ice Age floods.
But the lore goes back further, to a lake
with figures shuffling around it,
dressed in leaves
gathered from the forest,
Adam and Eve.
You and I are one in blood
at some point, Ali Maao Malin
and Dermot Reeve.

O Adam, O Eve.