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boethius was going/ to reconcile/ faith and reason

boethius was going
to reconcile
faith and reason

conjungere rationem
fidemque

they tightened
a rope around
his head

until his eyes
bulged out

and clubbed him
to death

but from ‘the consolation
of philosophy’
we get the prayer

let me accept the things
i cannot change

and the courage
to change the things i can

and the wisdom to know
the difference

i can’t tell
i know i never will

boethius is
the moon half risen
i see tonight

wrapped in
sheet of fine linen

or paper that
dissolves in water

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for Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
c. 480–524 or 525 AD