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# Passing Grade
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/passing-grade/
- Published: 2023-07-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The unexamined life is not worth living, as Socrates quite famously proclaimed. So though the years have been less than forgiving, decided to examine it, reframed.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The unexamined life is not worth living,  
as Socrates quite famously proclaimed.  
So though the years have been less than forgiving,  
decided to examine it, reframed.

"But wait!", I hear, "It's surely way too early.  
You're barely past the midpoint, as it were,  
and neither too irascible nor surly.  
You'd better wait until there's a there, there."

As to the surly, I would beg to differ,  
though I do try to nip it at the source.  
My joints ache when it rains, and plenty stiffer  
than back when Socrates was just a course.

That Socrates, I am a huge supporter.  
Examined it. Appears to be in order.