Let me start and say that my pen is not original

Each year Josie and Sephine give me

A Wittgenstein Diary

So that I might keep my notes

I always tease them that it a guilt present

To justify their Christmas trips to Cambridge

My latest diary is very interesting

As the great man discusses God


It is my belief that only

If you try to be helpful

To other people

Will you in the end

Find your way to God


Would you say that you

Are are a good person Joe

I would like to think I am

But is that for me to decide

As I know my weaknesses

Which I try to disguise

Using only the thinnest paper