ADEIMANTOS: he he ( he tunes his mandolin ),

ha ha ( we joke about a notebook ) ho ho,

( plays chord ) ( a secret one ) ( to hear )

and its the valley of our life ( below,

as philosopher piracy goes down, and O,

dear Βοb, thanks-be for ceding-we Key West.

his fat ones flow the sweet and saltiest

to hear we play both sides against the middle.

we count the verses giants you done best.

but fast, we lose no rest, and we lean left.

his left, her right to be alive, lets dream

horizons long-bow shooting-back the blind-

mans kiss — drew-her, joker, mr — bulls-eye ),

SOKRATES: but around(about) —

ADEIMANTOS: ( and yet, how could we Suzanne V forget?

in pieces raining down, her small blew thing,

who turns Calypso as she lets him go,

from thick and wild and hidden home, hallowed,

we blow her back, no shade, the sweet shes owed.

his chambermaid, but she grows herself a bed,

where her gypsy lays a bump upon his head ),

SOKRATES: ( . . . )

ADEIMANTOS: ( slows it down, tuning Canadienne )

( o blue alert, o dance me to the end,

whose secret chord does mend the pleasing lord.

for every leash, a halleluja. she

whose tower of song-sung-temple waits for me,

who by dark river wept, his craft hunts we

who lost us first — yes, Leonard, lets. )

SOKRATES: ( waits patiently )

ADEIMANTOS: ( for now, for just one more.

to the goat who wouldnt want to hear his name.

endorsed him, and she wont say it again.

salam, Kendrick, from our family to yours.

and to the people of his power, USA:

Black music be, your news, Black life remain. )

SOKRATES: ( waits )

ADEIMANTOS: ( go shoot your mouth off, Cardi B, of course.

and if we die, would you please drive our hearse? )

SOKRATES: ( claps )

ADEIMANTOS: ( in this she trusts ),

by which the fool in us lets go,

he hears

( who listens on his pirate radio ).

SOKRATES: ( waits )

ADEIMANTOS: ( hangs mandolin

carefully on its golden hook )

but did he ever try to voice the whale?

SOKRATES: but around( about )the truthful( trusty,

genuine, unconcealing )helmsman,

τοῦ δὲ ἀληθινοῦ κυβερνήτου πέρι

ADEIMANTOS: and his secrets ( we supposedly keep )

( but maybe also spill ) ( but might get whimsically

wrong ) being but a mannish boy

who navigates the Muddy Waters of

her as-yet unheard song,

on her as-yet un-practiced instrument,

( who never played mandolin before ),

SOKRATES: but not hearing( not giving-ear to,

not perceiving, not feeling, not understanding ),

μηδ᾽ ἐπαΐοντες,

ADEIMANTOS: her music,

we wouldnt be hearing her at all.

( the music of the Politeia —

were slingin it, Eva, hot to go )

( but the best friend of her mans best friend

says thanks for all the great cake, Joe ),

but he hears ( a ledger being appended )

and something sounds a heavy

and ponderous tome ( inhales )

( sea breeze ),

SOKRATES: that necessity( force-restraint ),

( to-for-by )himself,

be made the care( concern, attention )( commission or charge )

( zealous pursuit )( of cares )( bestowed ),

of the in-itself,

ὅτι ἀνάγκη αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ποιεῖσθαι ἐνιαυτοῦ

ADEIMANTOS: necessity of the “eni-auto”,

the in-itself ( maybe his image of

the good, the sun ),

( he-being teachers pet ),

and therefore ( he he ) boy of the —

SOKRATES: year(anniversary, lapse

of a year, expiry of a year, any long period

of time, cycle, period,

ADEIMANTOS: of however long it takes,

he ( we-being ) ( man-child of the year ) listens

for the ties that bind him round( about )her all,

her instrument, her lines and how we pull,

how work of shoulders hoist the mainsail, tall,

and how to catch the wind, her nicer angles,

SOKRATES: and( indeed the )seasons,

and( indeed the )sky and( indeed the )stars,

and( indeed the )winds and( indeed )all the( things

that )belong to the art( skill-craft ),

καὶ ὡρῶν καὶ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἄστρων καὶ πνευμάτων

καὶ πάντων τῶν τῇ τέχνῃ προσηκόντων,

ADEIMANTOS: and every time a fact falls

in my lap ( o book of song ),

in our ships log ( o mighty ledger )

he takes it down ( our songset ),

( we-being her quality

self-entertainment ),

SOKRATES: if( it )s destined( it was destined )( your

its destiny )( to-by-for )( we-being )( if its to be ),

fit-for-rule( command, office, dominant, sovereign,

principal, primary, original, first ruler

)of the( temple-dwelling )ship,

εἰ μέλλει τῷ ὄντι νεὼς ἀρχικὸς ἔσεσθαι,

ADEIMANTOS: but he wished it on the dog star,

( and now we feel like starting one ),

( she-being true treasure ) arrgh,

SOKRATES: but in order, ( o )steering-dyad,

that( he )( will )( would steer ),

( you will pilot )( the steering-dyad )

( to-by-for the steering ),

ὅπως δὲ κυβερνήσει (488ε)

ADEIMANTOS: if he takes the helm,

and lets the ships log ( the pink one ) ( his

true colors ) show,

SOKRATES: whether( some )they( body )would want( it ),

ἐάντε τινες βούλωνται

ADEIMANTOS: ( of course ) they do

to-for-by the ship ( who among us

could refuse ) ( even you ),

SOKRATES: or not,

ἐάντε μή,

ADEIMANTOS: but he-me doesnt get to choose,

( watch him play the victim now ) ( lol ),

( but he could hear the hounds of love

baying, and all the way from there,

he could hear the lowing of a bull,

was living through the kick inside ),

only it wouldnt be cold facts,

( for he is not a weatherman

but his bride lies with the land ),

SOKRATES: ( them )supposing neither( the )art

( craft-skill )of this, nor( the )care( practice-

exercise )( dyad-were-caring )to be possible

to take( grasp-seize-understand ),

μήτε τέχνην τούτου

μήτε μελέτην οἰόμενοι δυνατὸν εἶναι λαβεῖν ἅμα

ADEIMANTOS: he follows her feeling

and writes it down the best he can?

not big things, at least ( not always ),

( but little things weve gathered )

( having seen or overheard ) like,

the captured rabbit eyes a briarpatch.

the rooster crows before the dawn.

( o brave new world, we-being braver hears

yet easier through her vernaculars.

ah, bunny-like, we grow vernaculears.

as anyone who lives with roosters knows

how ear-piercing their constant crows — here,

arrgh. but still, easier to endure by far

than a constant scroll of other-mens news,

of other-mens war,

of other-mens yelling at her

the who and how and what shes for )

for the rooster crows before he understands

( we-being her own martial art,

and hers must be Achilles-like,

as without hers, all his must die )

that without hers, all his must die.

( so she sits in contemplation of his dyad-

sacrifice, the cock. it may be this

he meant it for. herself, still flanked

by Ajaxes, tough chickens, silencers

for Asklepios, the Red, the Black,

the Wall of the Achaians

of her mind ),

but in his mind, her gatherings feel

too huge ( leading to dizziness, sea-

sicknesss, falling overboard,

falling asleep, etc ),

SOKRATES: and( indeed )at the same time the steering-craft,

καὶ τὴν κυβερνητικήν.

ADEIMANTOS: but this be

( that make you smile? )

( that make me smile )

what he listens for,

SOKRATES: ( as given )becomings( being-born )

of these sorts( there was need )( it stands in-need-of )

( stand-in-need, you! )( bind, you! )

( it was binding )( to-by-for dyad-Zeus ),

around(about)the ship,

τοιούτων δὴ περὶ τὰς ναῦς γιγνομένων

ADEIMANTOS: good sailing. got it.

( and things ) like how he knows

so much about me, what a trip. mind me,

that plums sometimes will ripen more, left

to sit on a sunny windowsill. and it may

be personal preference, but if too tart,

try baking me in a pastry shell.

( we dont need to write down ),

( we-being generosity itself,

possibly ),

SOKRATES: as the truly( unconcealedly )steer-crafter,

τὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς κυβερνητικὸν

ADEIMANTOS: ( to remember ) dragon meat —

tough to digest,

( laugh, yall )

and indeed,

SOKRATES: ( you )would not lead( carry-bring-

fetch )( to-by-for )( we )being( being ),

οὐχ ἡγῇ ἂν τῷ ὄντι

ADEIMANTOS: and indeed, by any ship,

he never writes ( a book of everything

we know about you ) ( you-being very

very big ) lol ( you-being stranger from afar ),

( yet we can write things about him,

like how in love with her he is,

that hes such a tree-hugger,

and a truffle-hunter too,

o battle-cry of butterflies,

o Oceanic tresses,

o starry sky,

her skin ),

SOKRATES: and( indeed )( while being beauty- )called by them

( a )star-gazer,

ADEIMANTOS: ( theres nothing bad about that ),

but whats a meteoroskopy, and do ( we )i( being )

really want to go through with it?

SOKRATES: and(an)idle-talker(prater-babbler-on),

ADEIMANTOS: me me me meee,

( when he should be listening to we ),

SOKRATES: and( indeed )useless( unprofitable, unserviceable ),

μετεωροσκόπον (489α) τε καὶ ἀδολέσχην καὶ ἄχρηστόν σφισι καλεῖσθαι

ADEIMANTOS: ( putting on his shadow-puppet show ),

for all to see,

SOKRATES: by( from-under )the sailors in ships thus thoroughly-equipped

( constructed, framed, maintained, proved, fabricated,

trumped-up, with actual trumpets,

ADEIMANTOS: not imitation ones,

( she-being enjoys jazz ) ( and now you know )

and does he really want to learn trombone . . .

SOKRATES: prepared-for-purpose )

( having got his asses ready),

ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν ταῖς οὕτω κατεσκευασμέναις ναυσὶ πλωτήρων;

ADEIMANTOS: his ass to represent

( dodges tomatoes )

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from Republic VI