Monday, January 11, 2021

On a Raft in Assam

"The philosophy of Plotinus has always exerted a peculiar fascination upon those whose discontent with things as they are has led them to seek the realities behind what they took to be merely the appearances of the senses." -- Joseph Katz

The Hedonists did not believe in sex.
Philosophers would only trust in moonlight.
What could one do? You weren't the first
Brahman to discover the Buddha.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller,
Of Augusta, the Brookline Comedy Club,
Peddling rationality like a cure,

Was there no tabula rasa for you,
No marriage of dualities? 
You stayed decadent and oriental
Under Ficino's crooked capello.

What child, old professor, have you now become?