"Do you notice,"
says a passer-by
to the begging Diogenes,
*"that people rather offer alms
to the lame, blind and maimed?
They do not offer alms
to a philosopher like you.
Why is it that you think?"*
"That's because,"
says Diogenes
*"people think one day
they too might become lame, blind or maimed -
but they never think they'd
ever turn to philosophy
So they ignore me..."*
May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM UTC
"Do you notice,"
says a passer-by
to the begging Diogenes,
*"that people rather offer alms
to the lame, blind and maimed?
They do not offer alms
to a philosopher like you.
Why is it that you think?"*
"That's because,"
says Diogenes
*"people think one day
they too might become lame, blind or maimed -
but they never think they'd
ever turn to philosophy
So they ignore me..."*
poem 10 in my series of poems on Diogenes of Sinope, Diogenes the Cynic, Diogenes the Dog...
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