In a North London, top flat All white walls, carpet, white cat, Paper partitions Modern art and The a physician, bloke, has his own practice His an actress An old mate of ours from And they're always fun So to we've come.
The guest is an unknown, The hosts have just Us together for a because this just arrived from Australia And she'ss moved to London And the sister of someone Or has connection.
As we introductions I'm by her beauty irrefutably fair With dark and dark hair But as she I I'm a little bit wary because I notice the tip of the wing of a Tattooed on that popular Just the derrire And when she Im Sagittarian I a pigeonhole starts to form And is immediately with pigeon When she her name is Storm.
Conversation is bright and light-hearted But it's not long Storm gets started: You know anything, is merely opinion She opines, her Cabernet Sauvignon Vis--vis, Some comment made by me
Not a good I think We're on pre-dinner drinks And the room, my wife her eyes Silently begs me, Be A warning Not ignoring So I resist the to ask Storm knowledge is so loose-weave Of a When deciding whether to Her by the front door Or a window on the floor.
The is delicious and Storm, Whilst all meat, Happily sits and As the doctor, slightly pissedly Holds court on some anachronistic aspect of medical When Storm insists But the human is a mystery! Science falls in a hole When it to explain the the nature of the soul.
My throws me a glance She, like my wife, there's a chance That be off on one of my rare but fun rants But I , my lips are sealed. I just want to enjoy my And although Storm is starting to get my I no intention of rocking the boat, it's becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- like her namesake - Storm has no concerns for our vessel:
Pharmaceutical are the enemy They promote dependency At the cost of the remedies That are all our bodies They are and driven by greed. Why take When herbs can it? Why use When solvents Can it? I it's time we all return-to-live With natural alternatives.
And try as I like, A small appears In my diplomacy-dike. By definition, I Medicine, I continue, Has either not proved to work, Or proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative Thats been proved to Medicine.
So you don't In ANY Natural
On the contrary, Storm, I came to tea, I took a natural Derived from the bark of a willow A painkiller virtually side-effect free. Its got a name, Darling, what was it Aspirin! Which I paid about a for at the local drugstore.
The debate abates As my hosts plates but they return with desserts Storm asserts,
Shakespeare said it ''There are more things in heaven and exist in your philosophy'' Science is just how were trained to at reality, It explain love or spirituality. How does explain psychics? Auras; the afterlife; the power of
I'm aware I'm staring, I'm like a rabbit trapped In the headlights of vacuous crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she just Or the fifh glass of wine I quaffed But my diplomacy groans And the arsehole held back by its Can be held no more:
Look , Storm, I don't mean to you But there's no such as an aura! Reading Auras is like minds Or tea-leaves or star-signs or meridian These people plying a skill, are either lying or mentally ill. Same goes for claim to hear Gods demands Or healers who think they've got magic hands.
By the way, Why is it OK For to pretend they can talk to the dead? Isn't that totally in the head Lying to some crying woman child has died And telling her in touch with the other side? I think fundamentally sick Do we need to that there's no such thing as a psychic? What, are we 2? Do we think that Horton Heard a Who? Do we still think Santa brings us gifts? That Michael didn't have facelifts? Are we so stunned by circus tricks That we think that the dead Wanna to pricks Like John
to her credit despite my derision Keeps firing off clichés with precision Like a sniper using bollocks for
so sure of your position But you're just I you'll find Your faith in and Tests Is just as As the of any fundamentalist.
"Wow, thats a point, let me think for a bit" Oh wait, my mistake, its bullshit. adjusts it's views based on what's observed Faith is the of observation so that Belief can be preserved. If you me That, say, works, Then I change my mind I will spin on a fucking be embarrassed as hell, But I will run through the streets Its a miracle! physics and bin it! has memory! And it's memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite It forgets all the poo its had in it!
You show me that it works and how it And when I've recovered the shock I will take a and carve 'Fancy That' on the side of my cock.
Everyone's just now, But I'm pissed and Ive dug this far down, So I figure, in for penny, in for a
is full of mysteries, yeah, But there are answers out And won't be found By people around serious And isn't life mysterious? Let's sit and hope Let's up the fucking Pope Let's go watch Deepak Chopra
If wanna tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. show was so cool because every there was a church with a ghoul Or a in a school They looked beneath the mask and was inside? The fucking janitor or the who ran the water-slide. throughout history Every EVER solved has out to be Not Magic.
Does the idea that there might be you? Does the idea one afternoon On Wiki-fucking-pedia might you you? Does the notion there may not be a supernatural So your hippy noodle That rather just stand in the fog Of your inability to
Isn't enough? Just this Just beautiful, complex Wonderfully unfathomable, world? How does it so fail to our attention That we have to it with the invention Of cheap, man-made and Monsters? If you're so into Lend me ear:
''To gild gold, to the lily, To throw perfume on the is just fucking Or like that. Or about Satchmo?! I see of Green, Red too, And fine, if you to Krishna and Vishnu In a post-colonial, Bottled-up and kind of way whatever, thats okay. But heres what gives me a I am a tiny, insignificant, bit of carbon. I one life, and it is short and unimportant But to recent scientific advances I get to live twice as long as my great great great uncles-es and aunts-es. Twice as to live this life of mine as long to love this wife of mine Twice as many years of friends and Of sharing curries and shitty At hippies With fairies on their And butterflies on titties.
And if perchance I have Think but and all is mended: Wed as well be 10 back in time, For all the chance you'll your mind.