QUOTE : <b>Plato, or Why</b><br /><br />For unclear reasons<br />under unknown circumstances<br />Ideal Being ceased to be satisfied.<br /><br />It could have gone on forever,<br />hewn from darkness, forged from light,<br />in its sleepy gardens above the world.<br /><br />Why on earth did it start seeking thrills<br />in the bad company of matter?<br /><br />What use could it have for imitators,<br />inept, ill-starred,<br />lacking all prospects for eternity?<br /><br />Wisdom limping<br />with a thorn stuck in its heel?<br />Harmony derailed<br />by roiling waters?<br />Beauty<br />holding unappealing entrails<br />and Good —<br />why the shadow<br />when it didn’t have one before?<br /><br />There must have been some reason,<br />however slight,<br />but even the Naked Truth, busy ransacking<br />the earth’s wardrobe,<br />won’t betray it.<br /><br />Not to mention, Plato, those appalling poets,<br />litter scattered by the breeze from under statues,<br />scraps from that great Silence up on high.