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May 2012
Diogenes has traded
philosophy for riches
and poor Diogenes must beg -
for neither does he want to belong
to any organisation

and so Diogenes begs

and this man in the street
says to the begging Diogenes:
"OK, I'll give you money
if you can persuade me"



"Persuade you?" says Diogenes
*"If I could persuade you
I'd persuade you to go
jump off the nearest cliff"
poem 9 in my series of poems on Diogenes of Sinope, Diogenes the Cynic, Diogenes the Dog...
Raj Arumugam
Written by
Raj Arumugam  Australia
(Australia)   
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