In a North London, top flat All walls, white carpet, white cat, Rice partitions art and ambition The a physician, bloke, has his own practice His an actress An old of ours from home And they're great fun So to we've come.
The fifth is an unknown, The hosts have thrown Us for a favor because this girls arrived from Australia And she'ss to North London And she's the sister of Or has connection.
As we introductions I'm struck by her She's fair With dark eyes and dark But as she I admit I'm a bit wary I notice the tip of the wing of a fairy Tattooed on that area above the derrire And when she says Im I confess a pigeonhole to form And is filled with pigeon When she her name is Storm.
is initially bright and light-hearted But it's not long before Storm gets You know anything, is merely opinion She opines, her Cabernet Sauvignon Vis--vis, Some Empirical made by me
Not a good start I We're on pre-dinner drinks And across the room, my Widens her Silently begs me, Be A matrimonial Not worth So I resist the urge to ask Whether 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, avoiding all meat, Happily sits and As the good doctor, slightly Holds court on anachronistic aspect of medical history When Storm suddenly But the body is a mystery! just falls in a hole When it tries to explain the the of the soul.
My hostess 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 to enjoy my meal And although Storm is starting to get my I have no of rocking the boat, Although becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- like her meteorological - Storm has no such concerns for our
Pharmaceutical are the enemy They drug dependency At the cost of the remedies are all our bodies need They are and driven by greed. Why drugs herbs can solve it? Why use When solvents Can it? I think time we all return-to-live With medical alternatives.
And try as I like, A crack appears In my diplomacy-dike. By definition, I Medicine, I continue, Has not been proved to work, Or proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative Thats been to work? Medicine.
So you don't In ANY Natural
On the contrary, Storm, I came to tea, I took a natural from the bark of a willow tree A painkiller thats virtually free. Its got a name, Darling, what was it Aspirin! Which I about a buck for at the local drugstore.
The debate abates As my hosts plates but when return with desserts pertly asserts,
Shakespeare it first: ''There are more in heaven and earth Than exist in philosophy'' is just how were trained to look at reality, It explain love or spirituality. How does science explain the afterlife; the power of prayer?
I'm becoming I'm staring, I'm like a rabbit suddenly In the blinding headlights of crap. Maybe the Hamlet she just mis-quothed Or the fifh glass of I just quaffed But my diplomacy dike And the arsehole held back by its Can be held back no
Look , Storm, I don't mean to you But there's no thing as an aura! Reading is like reading minds Or or star-signs or meridian lines people aren't plying a skill, They are either or mentally ill. Same goes for peoplewho to hear Gods demands Or Spiritual who think they've got magic hands.
By the way, Why is it OK For people to pretend they can talk to the Isn't that totally in the head Lying to crying woman whose child has died And telling her you're in with the other side? I that's fundamentally sick Do we need to clarify there's no such thing as a psychic? What, are we 2? Do we actually that Horton Heard a Who? Do we still that Santa brings us gifts? That Jackson didn't have facelifts? Are we still so by circus tricks That we think that the dead Wanna talk to Like John
Storm to her credit despite my Keeps off clichés with startling precision Like a using bollocks for ammunition
You're so sure of your But you're just I think find faith in Science and Tests Is as blind As the of any fundamentalist.
"Wow, a good point, let me think for a bit" Oh wait, my mistake, its bullshit. Science adjusts 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 dime I'll be as hell, But I will run the streets yelling Its a miracle! physics and bin it! has memory! And while it's memory of a lost drop of onion juice is Infinite It somehow all the poo its had in it!
You show me that it works and how it And when recovered from the shock I will take a compass and carve 'Fancy 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
Life is of mysteries, yeah, But there are out there And they won't be By people sitting serious And saying isn't life sit here and hope Let's call up the fucking go watch Oprah Interview Chopra
If wanna watch tele, you should Scooby Doo. show was so cool because every time was a church with a ghoul Or a in a school They looked the mask and what was inside? The janitor or the dude who ran the water-slide. throughout history Every EVER has turned out to be Not Magic.
Does the idea that there might be Frighten the idea that one afternoon On Wiki-fucking-pedia might you you? Does the notion that may not be a supernatural So blow hippy noodle That you'd just stand in the fog Of inability to Google?
Isn't this Just this Just beautiful, complex Wonderfully unfathomable, natural How does it so fail to hold our we have to diminish it with the invention Of cheap, man-made and Monsters? If you're so Shakespeare me your ear:
''To gild gold, to the lily, To perfume on the violet 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, and labelled kind of way Then whatever, okay. But heres gives me a hard-on: I am a tiny, insignificant, bit of carbon. I one life, and it is short and unimportant But thanks to recent scientific I get to twice as long as my great great great great uncles-es and aunts-es. Twice as long to live this of mine Twice as long to love this of mine as many years of friends and wine Of sharing curries and shitty At good-looking With fairies on their And butterflies on titties.
And if perchance I have Think but and all is mended: Wed as be 10 minutes back in time, For all the chance you'll change mind.