THANKS FOR THE REMINDERS

thanks a lot for banning Plato

from being taught

at Texas A&M

 

it’s a great reminder

of some things I almost forgot

 

the randomness of the real

and the reality of the unseen

 

the illegitimate nature of categories

(see Theaetetus on ‘white’)

 

the grudgelessness

of nature

 

and the stealth

of objects in flight

 

thanks for the reminder

that laws are easily broken

 

and that there is very little time

for fucking around

 

*

in fact here’s what I would do

switch out Plato for Hipponax

think about it:

Aggies will dig his choliambs

but then (if I were you)

I’d ban that asshole too

 

might as well be safe

 

after all

solitary divergence on a point

of lyric meter

is nothing on which to found

a theory of liberty

—but maybe it is