First draft in response to philosophy challenge…
On balance
Reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
Feet in brogues, a mile to walk before salt porridge breakfast.
Love of wisdom?
Crumpets, ice cream, kiss-me-quick, midnight on the pier, a little of what you fancy.
Epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics?
Feathers in the gut: where’s the page, where’s the page, where’s the bloody page?
Relationships between truth, belief, and theories of justification?
You did it, he did it, she did it, we did it, yous all did it, they did it; it wasn’t me.
Skepticism is the position which questions the possibility of completely justifying any truth;
anyone fancy a pint?
delicious possibilities here… the rhythm of the abstract lists is like a train at times, hitting you over and over again with something difficult and beyond us – love the counterpoint of this with the real experience snapshots of living. wondering about playing about with sometimes reversing the order of the line of abstract with the real images. ie sometimes its the abstract that leads sometimes the real…
Thank you Fiona, that’s a really enticing suggestion. I’ll put it to bed for a while then have another go.
Apart from couplet 2 and the final couplet… oh, just read Fiona’s comment again and realised I was going to say exactly the same thing in different words… I wonder if you reversed the lines the poem would become even more intriguing?
Definitely going to have a play. Thanks Robbie.