LXXXIV
I WILL NOT DIE COMPLETELY!

“I will not die completely!” That is what
is said by that self-centered poet who hates
common people, who challenges them
to forget him, hoping that the challenge itself

will immortalize him; it is a calculated
trick to control people and to establish
his own Glory. But the poor fellow forgets
that the one who guzzles his liquor never

completely drains it. So his time came
and he became well-known; his poetry
is still vividly alive in our memory…

Alive…, that is, worn out. Thinking that
he could achieve an eternal dawn, he didn’t know
that even the dead will die eventually!