6565 - The frankness of Chereas
N. Lygeros
Translation: Paola Vagioni
“An artist emperor, this is not  appropriate.
We have had one or two, of course.
There are black sheep everywhere.
But the others have had the good taste
to remain civil servants.”
Authority fears artists
 for they respect no way
 the hierarchy of society.
 They are capable of challenging  everything
 for the needs of creation.
 Nothing is fixed, nothing is said,
 everything is yet to be made
 as if the world could not be
 but only become
 thanks to the intervention
 of this artistic touch
 which frightens so the civil servants.