The Mousetrap Revisited Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Entrapping the magic,
philosophers moan

Theory after theory,
no meat on the bone

They label and mark,
their didactics retooled

Force feeding their ramble
to dilettante-fools

And when in the end
they are then proven wrong

They slink back to their hollows,
where the vanquished now throng

But a new tier of ‘masters'
has taken their place

To lecture and spiel
—and pontificate

(Baldwin School: March,2021)