Philosopher's Club!

**Philosopher’s Club**

I know I am a primate

When I feel most primal,

And not my primary instinct

Is to try to think...

But can a caveman

Escape the allegorical cave

In an era of man caves?

I sit upon the philosopher’s stone,

For a philosopher-king has

No better throne—

And this throne has no games.

Paradoxes and puzzles

Are what we play

In the Philosopher’s Club.

No sophists allowed—

And those who dare invade,

Best be afraid.

For they that tread herein

Risk, in coming,

To be bludgeoned

With wit and cunning,

With lyric and logic—

To be beaten,

And brutalized...

By a Philosopher’s Club.

*Boop.*

— Y. Pessoa

June, 2019