Lives of the Saints in Verse

Thompson Cardwell-Renaissance Man

1934-1981

Born in New Orleans,

          This Hermeticist made it to Egypt ca. 1966.

He returned from the stalls of Alexandria

          with a cache of

          half-baked bricks.

Tommy's poor grasp of Attic

          only got him so far,

But his love of books led to a successful career

          distributing scud jotters

           up and down the West Coast.