Neanderthal Messiah — 98
Dec 9, 2020
Sokrates in his kitchen -IV
[In hushed voice, to Plato:]
‘She showed me in the walls there
An aerial attack on a
Towering cityscape of horrors
[Xanthippe serves tea, touching Plato’s shoulder.]
Explosions and people leaping to their death -
Like Apollo’s chariot twinned in evil…
Amidst that, a reporter of truth
Like our philosophers, Herodotus maybe, she
Tells of Building #7’s collapse
But it still stands!
All gleaming 47 stories visibly untoppled!
That philosopher was corrected by her superiors..’
[Xanthippe:] ‘Her?’
[Sokrates:] ‘Yes, but much later that day — it fell!
It seems, Plato, in the future
Their philosophers perceive truth beyond Time!’
…
[Plato:] ‘Tomorrow, my friend, they’re going to kill you.’
