Thomas Christian Wink, German
“With All Due Respect, When It Comes To Affordable Housing, You’re More Like Alexander the Meh,” 1782
Oil on copper
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/// Alexander’s men pointed their staffs
at Diogenes, sunning both calves.
“I’m great!” Al said with pride.
“I’m a dog; move aside,”
the sage answered, (no barrel of laughs).
/// When he wanted replies Alex got ‘em.
(No one yet had successfully fought him.)
Flashing pastel apparel,
Alex asked, “Why the barrel?”
“I reside in here, scraping the bottom.”
/// Alexander enjoyed a good pun.
“So, your bottom has splinters? Not fun.”
Diogenes leg
thrust out from his keg.
“Kiss my butt and get out of my sun!”
/// A good translator of Ancient Greek,
(if that’s what Macedonians speak),
we would need, to provide
what the Cynic replied,
so there’s no point in all this critique.
/// Many versions are told, (and that’s fine),
of this convo, so what I opine,
may be false or be true.
No one lives who once knew,
and so your guess is as good as mine.