Rock Collecting Poem by Douglas Scotney
Rock Collecting
Proud, greedy Staberius
so wanted how much he had to leave
to be known
that he arranged for it to be carved
on his tombstone.
If his heirs wouldn't do it
they'd have to waste what he left
on a 200 gladiator event,
all the corn in Egypt
and a lavish feast and entertainment.
Known from an Horatian satire
but lost for ages
the stone is on the bucket list
of philosophers, archaeologists
and sages.
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