January 2025
Bio Note: I was born in the Empire State of New York, grew up in the Golden State of California, last studied in the Lone Star State of Texas, and completed a career in the Sunshine State of Florida. I'm back on the Central Coast of California after a forty-year absence to think, write, play music... ward off earthquakes with art.
Across the Historical Divide
The classics tutor told me
about the think-tank titan
ambling about Ancient Athens
to say in his known inimitable way
"I know only that I know nothing."
In the original Greek of course.
The welcome-wagon journalist
in the capital city of a certain
country in a certain hemisphere
informed me of one local outlook:
"The only certainty is the uncertainty of things."
Now it falls to me to ponder how pertinent
these words may possibly be to each other,
their mutual applicability over the grand time span.
©2025 Charles A. Perrone
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