The Exit Poems ["Iron and Fire" & "No Heroes"]

The Exit PoemsI begin--.
[And Socrates]Disbelieving in light, wherever it was--
Iron and FireBy the exit--waiting for the movie to end!
Iron can be soften by fire--grows hard in the cold;and#790 [7/9/05]
all the gates thereinare, as it was, closed again.Socrates, a man of iron and fire I'd say, and a hero too
So, often are those misled?by luxury and pride,whomany; even a hero to the great Plato, for it was him,
push humility aside--:thus, redemption their vanityandwho cleared his good name up. They killed him for his
perfection their virtue...and in the end, they all collided.philosophy (as they had killed Galileo for his). But here
#789 [7/9/05]was a man who was not afraid of battle, or war, and
No Heroeslived his philosophy. He slept in tents, and figured it was
I'm still living all the places I've beentime to live, 'I'll write later,' or have someone write for
Dreaming of places I'd like to seeme. Sometimes we cannot do both, and have to
Catching airplanes, trains, and busesweigh the valor out. Thus, he achieved his noble glory;
In-between--unfortunately I am not sure if I can say that for Plato
Like a phantom at twilight!or Aristotle, both of great minds, but we are, at the
I have no heroes, just extravagate hope;end, measured by our souls.
They all seem to lose at the end, where