Xenophanes of Colophon

when he was banished from Greece
the poet Xenophanes walked around
he saw the fossils of fishes and of other sea life on the ground
but the surf was still pounding the waves were resounding against the land
he speculated that time was a beach and that we were the sand
he was a monotheist
he didn’t want any immoral gods
the poet Xenophanes
was with Homer and Hesiod at odds
but the surf was still pounding the waves were resounding against the land
he speculated that time was a beach and that we were the sand
he lived for 92 years
but only poems and satire survive
he never got to go home
and he continued to roam in exile
but the surf was still pounding the waves were resounding against the land
he speculated that time was a beach and that we were the sand