Ode to Nietzsche

Like herds of cattle

The Ordinary Man grazes around us

From our lofty vantage

We survey our kingdom

Preoccupied with the task

Ordinary Man never stops to ask

But we of rational mind

Put Ordinary Man to the most extreme of tasks

Herd mentality denigrates when it should sublimate

Ordinary Man can’t differentiate

The notion of human nature bad or intrinsically good

Cast aside preservational motivation

Warp and weft

Ordinary Man follows his nature

But what of us?

Those of philosophical inclination?

We cast our skeptical gaze

On the pastures where Ordinary Man grazes

Pragmatism evokes sympathy

Pedagogical inclination

Questions of giving and gifted

Shouldn’t the observer consider

Advantage is merely two letters distant

From vantage?