Philosopher (September)

September is a half-forgotten philosopher. Born in a half-foreign town in a year half over. Forgettable his youth, though not for him, haunted by unfinished dreams. Cogito Ergo is etched over the fireplace of his half-bombed home, now his museum. Visitors ponder how half his manuscripts he threw on the embers. A logician of opposites: “At a time when half the world is browning, half is bloom.’ His biographer (‘You Don’t Know The Half Of It’) writes: “His friends were eardrums, half-listening.” Survived by his wife, the half-remembered beauty April. Books on utopia, opium, longing. An uncompleted memoir: ‘Total Recall’.