Sententious Sonnet
Now who could fill the shoes of Petrarch today?
Vox Dei may perhaps sway the mind of a logician
Running the gamut from pedestrian to patrician.
Attentiveness is key, to keep many balls in play.
Heave the anchor ho and pray Aquilo's gusts won't betray
As we set sail like the Argo on its perilous mission.
Till simile’s soil 'til dragon's teeth foment sedition.
Do not stray from battlefield—dilettante—join the fray!
Oxford might have us keep ‘shtum’
‘cause the scheme here goes athwart
And this theme seems desultory.
Pollice Verso (with your thumb);
May these thoughts on art impart
Aesopian moral to our story.
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