Am I a fanatic? The opposite.
And where would I like to be?
Sitting under Plato’s olive tree
or propped against its thick old trunk,
away from controversy
or anyone choleric.

If you would see stones set right, unthreatened
by mortar (masons say “mud”),
squared and smooth, let them rise as they should,
Ben Jonson said, or he implied.
In “Discoveries” he then said,
“Stand for truth, and ‘tis enough.”