A Philosophical Interlude
By Howie Good


The incongruity of it! To be born
with only one friend in attendance

and then to travel the back roads
under an alias and often have

the crash of a falling building
echo beside me. To later

come across a crow in the woods
whose mere glance can be construed

as an insult. And finally to ask
a man on the corner which way

and be told that Kant was fond
of English cheese and Hobbes had

a predilection for playing tennis
and singing in his bedroom.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six previous poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.

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