After Callimachus
By using no spice but salt,
Eudemus, once in debt —
hence mortal peril — changed
his ways, and saved his skin
from creditors' long knives.
Now kept afloat by thrift
as sailors by a raft,
he therefore consecrates
this salt-cellar to what
gods — humble and without
high monuments — permit
his business to go on.
-- Stephen Burt
In other news, my scholarship check arrived.
By using no spice but salt,
Eudemus, once in debt —
hence mortal peril — changed
his ways, and saved his skin
from creditors' long knives.
Now kept afloat by thrift
as sailors by a raft,
he therefore consecrates
this salt-cellar to what
gods — humble and without
high monuments — permit
his business to go on.
-- Stephen Burt
In other news, my scholarship check arrived.
2 Comments:
Nice. He's a friend. He used to have an lj, but then just set up his own site, at accommodatingly.com -- which is syndicated to lj at accommodatfeed
Thank you -- it's good to put names to blog-names.
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