T H E O L D B A L L G A M E
The death of
Pure Neoplatonism
though hung tight
till the bottom half
of the ninth century.
Plotinus pitched
a whale of a game
but the boys didn't
get him any runs.
Iamblichus hit
what you might call
the last hellenistic triple
but was dialectically opposed
to stealing home.
With two down
Proclus drew a walk, advanced
to second when Dionysius
the Areopagite, a pinch hitter
nobody ever heard of
got himself hit, though it looked
unintentional.
It was up to big John
Scotus Erigena to bust the ballgame
wide open, and almost did.
He drove two out of the park
that went foul by inches.
He was thinking about that
when the pope called the third strike.