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Plato Hated Poetry, Poor Thing
First Sappho catalogued the symptoms of
Tsunami wave emotions. Sickness like
This malady has been treated as love
By writers ever since. It is a spike
Right through the thorax, never mind a prong
From Cupid, and a conflagration through
Our arteries and guts. It isn’t wrong
To say that Plato was a failure who
Tried stupidly to dress it up as souls
Transported to the realms of spirit highs
Above mere lust, above the fevered poles
Desiring gals, and guys’ cocks gouging guys.
..Which one was truer, Plato’s more abstract
….Ideal, or Sappho on the fuckin’ act?