Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Proxy Invitation (To Mephistophelis): A Poem By This Faust

 



Upon Being Given My Choice Of Gift:

(& Presented With Two Rare Editions Of Goethe's Faust)


Often when we want to show our love's Extant

And of course also do preserve our own selves well 

When we aim wisely we care not so much how money's spent

As we do to preserve our freedoms well as we can tell


And so the rarer items We come to think show more

(The more uncommon things we think are better),

But what we think the symbols chosen – for –

May turn out to be far too much like debt or debtor


So I ask that you consider a different kind of present

And if you wish it not or wish it also that is fine

In that case from the pool of choices you present 

From which you'd have me choose, the first edition's mine


But far away what I would fancy most, consider, please:

On some occasions – for a few conversations – be my Mephistopheles



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