By Richard Mather
from eternity
to eternity to
eternity
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29,
discovered 1897, Pennsylvania
If a straight line be cut
into equal
and unequal segments
[…] equal to the square on the half.
He was convicted by Ælfwald
smuggling liquor, narcotics
from Juteland to Norfolk.
Set down his pen
set down
this hook
<0, Sa; if a ≠ b, then Sa ≠ Sb>
Set fire to his craft
and drowned
say Euclid
(Reign of Ptolemy I)
first Plato,
then Spinoza
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