Socksrates: A Pseudo-Psyllogism with Accompanying Portrait -- Another Composite of Verse & Image in the Ongoing Series "Men of the Cloth"

"Socksrates"
Cotton compression socks 
and chemical marker on canvas
16" x 20"

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Rocks it in the BCEs.

Orthotics...? Not the expertise 

of Socksrates!

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

No drachma-by-the-dozen geez.

The unexamined life displeas-

es Socksrates.

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

“Know thyself!”’s among Sock's pleas.

Ditto “Let not fascia freeze!" 

(Br-r-r-r-r-r... Socksrates!)

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Mocks PlateHo* Sock's analyses...?

Herr 'Arristweedle** disagrees 

with Sock's spondees.

Socksrates! Asks Socksrates, 

"Hey, Plateho! Pass that pithos, please."
Still, Doctor Socks possesses keys 

to subsequent philosophies.

     [And now. allow a brief reprise:]

Socksrates! Socksrates! 

Rocks it in the BCEs.

Orthotics...? Not the expertise 

of Socksrates.

 

     * A younger contemporary of Socksrates who 

recorded much of his mentor's teaching. His portrait, 

in Crayolas and paper plates on 16" x 20" canvas, 

appears in the Textile Museum's exhibition 

"Men of the Cloth."
     ** Later Greek philosopher 'Arristweedle's 

portrait, also appearing in that show, is in acrylics 

over a Donegal wool sport coat mounted on 

16" x 20" canvas.