In a North London, top flat All white walls, white carpet, cat, Paper partitions Modern art and The a physician, bloke, has his own practice His an actress An old mate of from home And always great fun So to dinner come.
The fifth is an unknown, The hosts have thrown Us together for a because this just arrived from Australia And moved to North London And she's the sister of Or has connection.
As we introductions I'm struck by her She's irrefutably With dark eyes and dark But as she I I'm a little bit wary because I the tip of the wing of a fairy Tattooed on popular area above the derrire And she says Im Sagittarian I confess a pigeonhole to form And is immediately with pigeon she says her name is Storm.
Conversation is initially and light-hearted But it's not before Storm gets started: You know anything, Knowledge is merely She opines, over her Cabernet Vis--vis, un-hippily Empirical made by me
Not a good start I We're on pre-dinner drinks And the room, my wife Widens her Silently begs me, Be A warning Not ignoring So I resist the to ask Storm Whether knowledge is so Of a When deciding to leave Her apartment by the front Or a window on the floor.
The food is and Storm, Whilst all meat, sits and eats As the good doctor, slightly court on some anachronistic aspect of medical history When Storm insists But the body 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, knows there's a That I'll be off on one of my rare but fun But I , my lips are sealed. I just to enjoy my meal And although Storm is to get my goat I no intention of rocking the boat, it's becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- like her meteorological - Storm has no such for our vessel:
Pharmaceutical are the enemy They promote drug At the cost of the remedies are all our bodies need They are immoral and by greed. Why drugs herbs can solve it? Why use When homeopathic Can it? I think time we all return-to-live natural medical 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 been proved to work? Medicine.
So you believe In ANY remedies?
On the contrary, Storm, Before I to tea, I a natural remedy Derived from the bark of a tree A thats virtually side-effect free. Its got a name, Darling, what was it Aspirin! Which I about a buck for Down at the drugstore.
The debate abates As my hosts collects but when they return desserts Storm asserts,
Shakespeare it first: ''There are more things in and earth Than in your philosophy'' Science is just how were trained to at reality, It explain love or spirituality. How science explain psychics? the afterlife; the power of prayer?
I'm becoming I'm staring, I'm like a suddenly trapped In the blinding headlights of crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she mis-quothed Or the fifh of wine I just quaffed But my dike groans And the arsehole held by its stones Can be held no more:
, Storm, I don't mean to bore you But there's no thing as an aura! Reading is like reading minds Or tea-leaves or star-signs or lines These aren't plying a skill, They are either lying or ill. goes for peoplewho claim 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 fucked in the head Lying to some woman whose 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 actually that Horton Heard a Who? Do we think that Santa brings us gifts? That Michael didn't have facelifts? Are we still so by circus tricks That we that the dead would talk to pricks Like Edward?
to her credit despite my derision Keeps off clichés with startling precision Like a using bollocks for ammunition
so sure of your position But you're just I think 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. Science adjusts it's views based on what's is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved. If you me That, say, works, Then I will my mind I will on a fucking dime be embarrassed as hell, But I will run through the yelling Its a miracle! Take and bin it! has memory! And while it's memory of a long lost drop of 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 from the I will take a compass and '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 are answers out there And they won't be By sitting around serious And saying isn't life sit here and hope Let's call up the Pope go watch Oprah Interview Chopra
If wanna watch tele, you should Scooby Doo. That was so cool because every there was a church with a ghoul Or a in a school They looked beneath the and what was inside? The janitor or the dude who ran the water-slide. Because history Every solved has turned out to be Not Magic.
Does the idea there might be knowledge Frighten Does the that one afternoon On might enlighten you you? Does the notion that there may not be a So blow hippy noodle That you'd just stand in the fog Of your to Google?
Isn't enough? this world? Just beautiful, complex Wonderfully unfathomable, natural How does it so to hold our attention That we to diminish 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 on the violet is fucking silly'' Or like that. Or what Satchmo?! I see of Green, Red too, And fine, if you to Glorify Krishna and In a post-colonial, Bottled-up and labelled of way whatever, thats 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 advances I get to live as long as my great great great great uncles-es and aunts-es. Twice as long to live this life of Twice as long to this wife of mine as many years of friends and wine Of curries and getting shitty At good-looking With fairies on their And butterflies on titties.
And if I have offended Think but and all is mended: Wed as be 10 minutes back in time, For all the chance you'll your mind.