On the Beach, I Will Read Plato

A New Poem

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On the beach, I will read Plato 
In the hedonist’s season
Of an unruly summer
When frolics are the law
And no one seeks an other than
Or an other with

Then, I will read Plato
Between the cursed enjoyment of other things
In which walls unbuilt confine
And give scant comfort
But for Plato

And what, indeed, could Plato have …