Plato
Raged
Against the
Poets
He thought they were
A bad influence
He must’ve thought
That only he
And his ‘philosophy kings’
Should tell the stories
I wonder what he would think
About the wave of stories
We consume
And all of the poets
Constructing these stories
All the movies
All the TV shows
All of the books
All of the video games
We are fed
Story after story
And we constantly
Ask for more
Hungry humans
Eating up stories
By the crate load
I wonder what Plato would say about it . . .
-C.H.
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