Stud Poker
Philosophers…they don’t know any more
About The Truth than Greek pig farmers do.
The rest of us not part of these two poor
Groups (salesmen, poets, priests…) don’t have a clue.
A prophet and a Plato come along.
They have their candles, gasps, Ideals, and caves
With darkness punctuated by a song.
So what? Both Harvard and cathedral naves
Are empty when it comes to Truth. The priests
Prefer the spaces just above the thighs
Of altar boys and little girls. (The beasts
In monastery fields do not tell lies.)
..Come Christmas, Hanukkah, and Eid—that stuff
…..Is just as true as any other bluff.