stargazing

I am sitting on
the back deck
warching the total
eclipse of the moon

& am reminded of
how Diogenes is
supposed to have
reprimanded Alex-

ander the Great for
standing between 
him & the sun, which
then, in the manner

of planetary motion,
makes me think that
if Diogenes had been
persuaded to give up

his barrel & take up 
a post as Comptroller
of Celestial Bodies, he
might have ordered

the Earth not to come
between the moon &
the sun, & occlusion
would never occur.