Palimpsest

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?

Hamlet: Words, words, words.

“Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.”

—Will Rogers

When I was wise I sought obscurity,

And I’ve achieved it now in witless age.

Undone these days, I banish history.

The words I write must wither on the page.

Telling stories, it's said, is telling lies.

A fallow field is “honour’d in the breech,”

And silence, you’ll concur, best sets off speech.

There’s time enough for nothing if love dies.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026, Sedgefield, Western Cape, South Africa