Sunday, March 14, 2021

Socrates on the Courthouse Lawn in Liberty, Texas - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Socrates on the Courthouse Lawn in Liberty, Texas

 

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

 

-attributed to Socrates, but no one knows

 

Imagine if you will old Socrates

On an old wooden bench on the courthouse lawn

Playing checkers with all the other old men

On an old picnic table throughout the day

 

He lifts his old straw hat in the leafy shade

With his old bandana he wipes his old bald head

And sagely asks the old questions of us

And through his dialectic dismantles old cant

 

And that must be why, as the ages pass

They’ve made for him a monument here in the grass

 

 

(While passing through Liberty, Texas I saw on the courthouse lawn a marble slab engraved only with “Socrates”.)

 

Liberty County Courthouse - TexasCourtHouses.com

Liberty, Texas, Bed & Breakfast Hotels (usatoday.com)

Socrates (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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