Who seeks to educate, iconoclast
must be; indeed, iconoclast has been
and more in finding strength to say Amen
to statement upon statement now amassed.
Who seeks to educate, enthusiast
must be; indeed, an optimist who, when
a crooked pattern is destroyed, again
can hope what is revealed may be recast.

The jagged surface broken but betrays
complex designs more randomly disposed
than any one that hid the now disclosed.
The siren call of progress sounds to raise
a dauntless line of hopeful scientists
who, knowing all, believe design exists.

- Robert Stone, 18 October 1961 in The Peabody Post [published by the students of George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee], page 5, Volume XV, Number 2, Wednesday, October 18, 1961


CM Literary Department Note: We know that anyone who attends the Gradyville store, or sits on the literary panel at Hardscratch Deli, or argues in formal debates at Charles Patterson's place at Knifley, or discourses on central issues of the day at the Fountain Plaza in Downtown Columbia, KY, that all present talk of little else than the fine points of poetry and this note is not meant to offend them by its condescension. This merely in the interest of bringing Culture and Enlightenment to the Great Unwashed Masses: The foregoing is NOT a Shakespearean sonnet (4-4-4-2); it is More Better discribed, as The Other Kind of Sonnet, (6-8), the format CM has chosen over the (4-4-3-3), posting of which would, we fear, get CM Tarred and Weathered for Putting on Airs. -CM


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