SLAP-BANG
I took Socrates
on a tour of the campuses
in turmoil
they were peaceful
but then the cops
and every kind
of president demanded
they be taught a lesson
I watched the old,
self-appointed philosopher
shake his head
wondering if these
were not,
given the architechure, given
the phalynx formations
graphic scenes from
a battle
slap-bang in the middle
of the Peloponnesian War
poems 2 die for 