Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato.
-Alfred North Whitehead

1
It’s all
a footnote

to Job,
nothing no

where but
the corner

of the eye.

2
Cite book
after book,
Koheleth –

the memory
of them never
ends. We

make scenes
of one Socrates
or an other,

bind
books
and imagine

we should know
every ass
that stands in our way.

3
Satan,
like a god,

is a metaphor,
part of the power

which forever wills
evil and forever works

good. Moscow is
not the only place

where no one is
to be seen.

4
No one is
to be seen
everywhere

one path
crosses
another

posting
notes
to his brother

who is
made of nothing
except loneliness. The other,

who does not know the meaning
of the word, is the perfect witness.

5
Yeshua tells Pilate nothing
he does not already know:

every kind of power
is a form of violence

against people. Even
Ivan is seized by poetry

when the moon is full.
As for Margarita,

who needs light
when you have this

peace that could pass
for understanding?

6
No one but no
one earns
light. No one.

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