Don't Tell Newman Poem by Douglas Scotney
Don't Tell Newman
Over dinner:
'If that guy Newman
knew
that his name means
more than it looks to -
that 'numen' is Latin
for 'divinity' -
that knowledge would go to his head, '
said a follower of Athenaeus to me,
and, 'Psst! Don't tell Newman:
he'll think he's better than we.'
I'm pretending I didn't hear the Psst!
A 'he' with an H - that I gotta see.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: dinner,divinity,philosophy
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Athenaeus wrote
Deipnosophistai' - dinner-table philosophy
Deipnosophistai' - dinner-table philosophy
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