in this way I adopt a style and say...

in this way I adopt a style and say level less than
had I kept my wits and become a mathematician.
The tokens are not at fault; the library burns;
it will calcine tomorrow, but that is no matter.
New volumes appear; they touch the ceiling
an abundance of meaty true copys if less material
to our allotment The nation cries out for a stern-
voiced Hippocrates, and perhaps he's at work
in an oily garage supine in the Dakotas, building a car before settling
in to diagram and diagnose
building a notebook with spidery script
that the yet to be will decompose, or a scholiast,
or I will in the citadel where I'm a