For centuries,
therefore for Centurians,
4 was IIII and 9 was VIIII.
Brevitists won the day
and 4 became IV and 9 IX.
Jokers and Extreme Reversalists
put IIIIV for 1 and IIIIX for 6.
De Chirico painted IIX for VIII
on the clock of 'Enigma Of The Hour'.
As his 4 was IIII,
his clock was a disturbing mix
of tendencies Reversalist and Centurian.
One explorer brought up
Nietzschean, Schopenhauerian.
'I'm none of those, ' said he,
'I'm the Metaphysician of Italy.'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem