Simon, The Sandal Maker
An attempt to show a symposium with Socrates and his friend Simon, the sandal maker.Note: Simon was an unknown philosopher and friend of Socrates. In this poem I am trying to bring him from obscurity and to show what it must have been like to be at one of the symposiums held in his sandal shop. “So here we are again, dear friend,” he’d say, greeting Socrates, kissing cheeks the way they had for years, opening his sandal shop for these gatherings, where we could stop for conversations, forgetting time, le...