In a London, top floor flat All white walls, white carpet, cat, Rice Paper Modern art and The a physician, Bright bloke, has his own His girlfriend's an An old mate of from home And always great fun So to we've come.
The guest is an unknown, The hosts just thrown Us for a favor because this girls just from Australia And she'ss moved to North And she's the of someone Or has connection.
As we make I'm struck by her irrefutably fair With dark and dark hair But as she I admit I'm a bit wary because I notice the tip of the of a fairy on that popular area Just the derrire And when she says Im I a pigeonhole starts to form And is immediately filled pigeon she says her name is Storm.
Conversation is bright and light-hearted But it's not long before Storm gets You know anything, is merely opinion She opines, over her Cabernet Vis--vis, Some comment made by me
Not a start I think We're on pre-dinner drinks And across the room, my her eyes Silently begs me, Be A matrimonial Not worth So I resist the urge to ask Whether knowledge is so Of a deciding whether to leave Her by the front door Or a on the second 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 suddenly insists But the human is a mystery! Science falls in a hole it tries to explain the the nature of the soul.
My hostess throws me a She, like my wife, there's a chance That I'll be off on one of my but fun rants But I shan't , my are sealed. I want to enjoy my meal And Storm is starting to get my goat I have no of rocking the boat, Although becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- her meteorological namesake - Storm has no concerns for our vessel:
companies are the enemy They drug dependency At the of the natural remedies That are all our bodies They are immoral and by greed. Why take When can solve it? Why use homeopathic solvents Can it? I think it's time we all 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 been not to work. Do you know what they call medicine been proved to work? Medicine.
So you believe In ANY remedies?
On the contrary, Storm, I came to tea, I took a natural Derived the bark of a willow tree A painkiller thats side-effect free. Its got a name, Darling, what was it Aspirin! Which I paid a buck for at the local drugstore.
The debate briefly As my hosts collects but when return with desserts pertly asserts,
Shakespeare it first: ''There are more things in heaven and exist in your philosophy'' Science is just how were to look at reality, It doesn't explain or spirituality. How does explain psychics? the afterlife; the power of prayer?
I'm aware I'm staring, I'm like a rabbit trapped In the headlights of vacuous crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she mis-quothed Or the fifh glass of I just quaffed But my dike groans 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 Auras is like reading Or tea-leaves or star-signs or lines These people aren't a skill, They are lying or mentally ill. Same for peoplewho claim to hear Gods demands Or Spiritual healers who think they've got hands.
By the way, Why is it OK For people to pretend can talk to the dead? Isn't that totally fucked in the Lying to some crying woman whose child has And telling her you're in touch with the other I that's fundamentally sick Do we need to clarify that there's no 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 Michael Jackson have facelifts? Are we so stunned by circus tricks That we think that the dead Wanna talk to Like Edward?
Storm to her despite my derision Keeps firing off clichés startling precision Like a using bollocks for ammunition
You're so of your position 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 it's views based on observed Faith is the denial of observation so that can be preserved. If you me That, say, works, Then I change my mind I will spin on a fucking 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 long lost drop of juice is Infinite It somehow all the poo its had in it!
You me that it works and how it works And when I've recovered from the I will take a compass and carve 'Fancy That' on the of my cock.
Everyone's staring now, But I'm pretty pissed and Ive dug far down, So I figure, in for penny, in for a
is full of mysteries, yeah, But are answers out there And won't be found By people around serious And isn't life mysterious? sit here and hope Let's call up the fucking Let's go Oprah Interview Deepak
If watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That was so cool because every there was a church with a ghoul Or a ghost in a They looked the mask and what was inside? The fucking janitor or the who ran the water-slide. Because history mystery EVER solved has out to be Not Magic.
Does the idea there might be knowledge you? Does the idea one afternoon On Wiki-fucking-pedia might you Frighten Does the notion that may not be a supernatural So blow your noodle That you'd just stand in the fog Of your inability to
Isn't enough? Just this Just this beautiful, unfathomable, natural world? How does it so fail to hold our That we have to diminish it with the Of cheap, man-made Myths and If so into Shakespeare me your ear:
''To gild gold, to the lily, To throw perfume on the is just silly'' Or like that. Or what 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 Then whatever, okay. But what gives me a hard-on: 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 long to live life of mine Twice as long to love wife of mine Twice as many years of and wine Of sharing and getting shitty At hippies fairies on their spines And butterflies on titties.
And if I have offended but this and all is mended: Wed as be 10 minutes back in time, For all the chance you'll change mind.