<<As actual poet politicians you have Byron and Mao.>>
Ra(`m Tha'ng Gie^ng
[Full Moon in January]
Now comes the first full moon of the year
Rivers rise in mist to join spring skies.
We talk of strategy in high places.
Yes, sell the compass, come on the boat of the full moon.
Ho Chi Minh (1948)
[trans. Kevin Bowen]
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts-5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
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"Always come down from the barren heights
of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
::Wittgenstein
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