*photo courtesy of Bellarmine University ‘64 In college I studied what I thought was Philosophy,
Nietzsche Nonsense
Sartre Sarcasm
Socratic Solosophy
Aristotelian Logic
Plato’s Playdough
How Immanuel Kant couldn’t
Confucius Confusion
Kierkegaard’s Constant Critiques
DeCarte before de horse
John Locke Unlocked
Marx’s Magic
Lenin Lemmings,
All whilst shaving with Occam’s Razor
What today,
I now know is,
I wasn’t studying philosophy,
But the history of a world going mad,
Having taken that quiz,
I have simplified all that.
Now I Pray,
And write Poetry.
Author’s Notes: I graduated from Bellarmine College (Class of ‘64). Uncle John, the founder, handed me my diploma. Jude Dougherty taught me Philosophy and attended my wedding. I met my wife, Shirley Boulos, while at Bellarmine; that was serendipity.
*Photo (compliments of Bellarmine University) of Our Lady of the Woods Chapel, dedicated to my Uncle John. My keynote address at the dedication can be found in “My Memoirs,” to be published in 2022. John Key and I ran track on the track below in the photo.
“I believe that philosophy is a unique interpretation of the “universe” by each beholder.” Mickey Sharp.