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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
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