Classic Poem

Economists, who cultivate statistics;
to prove the truth of economic destiny
by your complete obedience to its laws; —
Our youth prepares our minds to recollect
our memories of history while we live.
All dead men live now among living men.
The savage, the Nile man, Euphrates man,
the Apollonian, Dionysian Greek,
Etrurian corporation lawyer.
Mosaic Arab and Jew of the Diaspora,
the Apostolic, Patristic, Byzantine,
Nordic, Barbarian, Pagan, anchorite
and monk of the Dark Ages, who rakes embers
to set the woods on fire behind his back,
Burgher, Crusader, Prince of athletic virtue,
Conquistador; Elizabethan pirate,
State-minded bigot, Baroque casuist,
Sceptic, Deist, Conservative, Agnostic; —

who has not all of these for friends confines
his love of drama to the costume play.
He could not sit through Hamlet in plain clothes.
He dooms his sons to be low-pressure salesmen.
One, who in reading Plato does not hear
his friends rehearse characteristic thought
should add new leaves and clasps to his address book.
He needs to clean the beeswax from his ear.

For this, I recommend a woman's hairpin.