Thursday, November 1, 2018

Daily Dose


From A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, by James Laughlin

 THE SMART MAN

That old know-it-all Cicero said that
the wicked flourish like a green bay
tree, and that an old love pinches like
a crab. A smart man but nobody liked him
much and Augustus had him executed.

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