ON THE SPEAKER AT SPUR

ON THE SPEAKER AT SPUR

takes me back
Supertramp Logical Song

takes me back
not quite to Plato, Nietzsche,
Heidigger, Socrates
that
   smorgasbord of
philosophical ideas and little
old me battling
my way gorgeously
through
     Logic and
Metaphysics 101
               TS Eliot’s Prufrock
and Wasteland

and you there, Missy Libra
sleek and slim and
from the Northern Suburbs
of Johannesburg

but I couldn’t make a move
because you was obviously
so
obviously sold
on someone else

except
that someone
was
    (so, so
illogical, so counter-
intuitive
against everything
about myself
I was
told
   to believe)
me

on the speaker at Spur
the logical song

and you
telling me what I missed
all those
   years ago

showing me
just how logical
      the world can be