The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

"Don’t make a hobby…"

Poems:

“I Nearly Died from the Socratic Method” by Diane Seuss: Impossible to find fault with this intricate, elegant series of gestures. The most famous teacher in history still teaches the lesson of death, in the end; nature, too, has that lesson. The ego and the body are each fragile – but in very different ways. The shift in the middle is funny, too; so is “hot/dog, a pea/brain”, obviously, and even “wild / carrot”. Humility is the lesson, and the constant state of not-knowing; on the other hand, if you can write something like this, who needs humility?