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A Young Philosopher Lapses Into Existential Despair
Once upon a time -
A young philosopher sat among men
In the shaded olive groves of Athens
Incense to the Muses, wisdom to all
His ideas soared like Athena’s owls
One day a wise ómorfo korítsi
Delighted him with her strong arguments
Delighted him with her dark Hellenic eyes
Delighted him with a dinner invitation
And as they reclined in symposium met
With verse and wine and wisdom in delight
He excused himself to the toualéta
Where on its walls he read in Attic verse:
If you sprinkle
When you tinkle
Be a sweetie
Lift the seatie
After that his fellow philosophers
Saw him gently into a nursing home
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