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# Philosopher's Stone
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/philosophers-stone/
- Published: 2023-09-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I've always wanted to establish what one would call a School of Thought. To write, to influence, to publish. "You read it yet? By god, you ought!"
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I've always wanted to establish  
what one would call a School of Thought.  
To write, to influence, to publish.  
"You read it yet? By god, you ought!"

I'd count Confucius as a student,  
trade candid insults with Voltaire.  
Rousseau would call me harsh, but prudent,  
and mutter "extra-ordinaire".

I'd love debating Marx and Engels  
over an opiate or two.  
They haven't thought through all the angles:  
there's no utopia in you.

I'd rise above the ceaseless chatter  
and will be listened to, by choice,  
and count, in all the ways that matter.  
Unfortunately, lost my voice.