Socrates
Invented the blues.
“Whoa Oh.
Sometimes I wonder
who I am
and whether
I know anything.”
Plato
sang Socrates’ songs
at the Lyceum.
“Hey, everybody
I’m here in my cave
watchin’ the shadows
with my favorite slave.”
Cicero
sang the blues
got a girlfriend.
“Oh baby
I was nothin’
until I met you.”
Tom Aquinas’
girlfriend left him.
“Oh baby
my cave’s so lonely
without you.
Erasmus
left his girlfriend.
“Oh baby
I think about you
but I don’t miss our cave.”
Rene Descartes
moved to the city
invented the urban blues.
“Hey, everybody
I’m livin’ in a loft
diggin’ the shadows
my life’s so soft.”
Immanuel Kant
couldn’t get a girlfriend.
“Oh baby
I’m all alone
you’re so far away.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
pondered his celibacy.
“Oh baby
I wonder who I am
without you.”
William James
sang Socrates’ songs
in coffee houses.
“Whoa Oh.
Sometimes I wonder
who I am
and whether
I know anything.”
