‘Venetian ‘merchants’, besieging Athens’
their artillery scoring Acropolis hits.
‘Imagine it.’
Sneering;
we were always good at that.
Commerce and culture, ‘Bean-counters,
and creators, makers.’
Both bear our scrutiny.
How these thin columns hold their lintel
of argument. The frieze of warriors
that overlays bare stone, chisel marks,
the industries of art – overlaying
the sophist’s forgotten blind alleys,
with only the successful, useful
remaining.
What was my argument, again?
I forget, my concentration overlaid
by an artillery of marketing
and contemporary concerns, moments.
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