ANCIENT
they knew
that he was old
very old
even ancient
flaky crumbling
but
when he
borrowed his
birth certificate
from the vaults of
the British Museum
written in
Sumerian cuneiform
pictographic fine
lexical text
from Uruk
Mesopotamia
on a sun baked
clay tablet
and
signed by
Enmebaragisi
the White temple
high priest
of the sky god Anu
and
countersigned by
En-Hedu-Anna
the high priestess
of the goddess Inanna
they were
impressed
most impressed
pmcmanus
r388
in my research for names I resisted but barely
Shagshag - Early queen of Lagash c 2350 B.C. (during the Sumerian period?)
(5)
Some thought this poem was to long -I rather liked the layering of the cake
with extra goodies
En-Hedu-Anna I understand is the first named author of any book c4300 years
ago
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