that tend to run
in packs
from anything
that disagrees
with them: for
instance, facts.
In that nasty swarm of bees,
In that nasty swarm of bees,
they never can relax.
.
But facts too face uncertainties
to stop them in their tracks.
New proofs and further inquiries
can stab them in their backs.
If they turn out to be a tease,
they’ll also get the axe.
.
And so the fundaments of mind,
can, like a devil’s wink,
sometimes turn out to be a bind.
In half-a-second’s blink,
illumination’s undermined
the root of how we think.
.
Are there fresh philosophies
to guide us, say what’s best?
Don’t ask Plato’s Socrates
to put truth to the test.
Talk about a swarm of bees!
Death’s the only rest.
.
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(the short version:
.
Ideas collect in families
that tend to run in packs
from anything that disagrees
with them: for instance, facts.)
.
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