In a North London, top flat All walls, white carpet, white cat, Paper partitions art and ambition The a physician, Bright bloke, has his own His girlfriend's an An old mate of ours from And always great fun So to dinner come.
The guest is an unknown, The have just thrown Us together for a this girls just arrived from Australia And she'ss moved to North 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 admit I'm a little bit because I notice the tip of the of a fairy on that popular area Just above the And she says Im Sagittarian I confess a pigeonhole to form And is immediately filled with When she says her is Storm.
Conversation is bright and light-hearted But it's not before Storm gets started: You know anything, is merely opinion She opines, over her Sauvignon Vis--vis, Some Empirical comment by me
Not a start I think We're only on drinks And across the room, my her eyes Silently me, Be Nice A matrimonial Not worth So I resist the urge to ask Whether knowledge is so Of a When deciding to leave Her by the front door Or a window on the floor.
The is delicious and Storm, avoiding all meat, Happily sits and As the doctor, slightly pissedly Holds court on some anachronistic of medical history When Storm suddenly But the human is a mystery! Science falls in a hole When it tries to the the nature of the soul.
My hostess me a glance She, like my wife, knows there's a That I'll be off on one of my rare but fun But I shan't , my are sealed. I just want to enjoy my And although is starting to get my goat I have no of rocking the boat, it's becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- like her namesake - has no such concerns for our vessel:
Pharmaceutical companies are the promote drug dependency At the cost of the remedies That are all our need They are immoral and by greed. Why take When can solve it? Why use homeopathic solvents Can it? I it's time we all return-to-live natural medical alternatives.
And try as I like, A small crack 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 alternative medicine been proved to work? Medicine.
So you believe In ANY Natural
On the contrary, Storm, Before I to tea, I took a remedy Derived from the bark of a tree A painkiller thats side-effect free. Its got a name, Darling, what was it Aspirin! Which I about a buck for Down at the drugstore.
The briefly abates As my hosts collects but they return with desserts pertly asserts,
Shakespeare it first: ''There are more in heaven and earth Than exist in your is just how were trained to look at reality, It doesn't explain or spirituality. How science explain psychics? Auras; the afterlife; the power of
I'm becoming I'm staring, I'm like a suddenly trapped In the blinding of vacuous crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she just Or the glass of wine 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 no such thing as an aura! Reading is like reading minds Or or star-signs or meridian lines These people plying a skill, They are either or mentally ill. Same goes for peoplewho to hear Gods demands Or healers who think they've got magic hands.
By the way, Why is it OK For people to pretend they can to the dead? Isn't totally fucked in the head Lying to crying woman whose child has died And her you're in touch with the other side? I that's fundamentally sick Do we to clarify that there's no such thing as a psychic? What, are we 2? Do we actually think that Horton a Who? Do we still think that brings us gifts? That Michael Jackson have facelifts? Are we still so stunned by circus That we think the dead would Wanna to pricks Like Edward?
Storm to her despite my derision Keeps firing off clichés with precision Like a using bollocks for ammunition
You're so sure of your But you're closed-minded I think find Your faith in 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 based on what's observed Faith is the of observation so that Belief can be preserved. If you me That, say, works, Then I will change my I will spin on a dime be embarrassed as hell, But I will run through the streets Its a miracle! Take and bin it! has memory! And while it's of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite It somehow all the poo its had in it!
You show me it works and how it works 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 pretty and Ive dug this far down, So I figure, in for penny, in for a
Life is of mysteries, yeah, But there are answers out And won't be found By people sitting serious And isn't life mysterious? Let's sit and hope Let's call up the fucking Let's go watch Deepak Chopra
If wanna tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That was so cool because every time there was a church a ghoul Or a in a school They looked beneath the and what was inside? The fucking or the dude who ran the water-slide. Because throughout mystery EVER has turned out to be Not Magic.
Does the idea that there might be you? Does the idea that one On Wiki-fucking-pedia might you Frighten Does the notion there may not be a supernatural So blow hippy noodle you'd rather just stand in the fog Of your inability to
Isn't this Just this Just beautiful, complex Wonderfully unfathomable, world? How does it so fail to hold our That we have to diminish it the invention Of cheap, man-made and Monsters? If you're so Shakespeare me your ear:
''To refined gold, to the lily, To throw perfume on the is just fucking Or like that. Or what Satchmo?! I see of Green, Red too, And fine, if you to Glorify and Vishnu In a post-colonial, and labelled kind of way Then whatever, okay. But heres what gives me a I am a tiny, insignificant, bit of carbon. I have one life, and it is and unimportant But thanks to scientific advances I get to live twice as long as my great great great uncles-es and aunts-es. Twice as long to live this of mine Twice as long to this wife of mine Twice as many years of and wine Of sharing and getting shitty At good-looking With fairies on their And on their titties.
And if I have offended but this and all is mended: Wed as well be 10 back in time, For all the you'll change your mind.