In a North London, top floor All white walls, carpet, white cat, Rice Paper Modern art and The a physician, bloke, has his own practice His an actress An old mate of ours home And they're great fun So to dinner come.
The guest is an unknown, The hosts have thrown Us for a favor this girls just arrived from Australia And she'ss moved to North And she's the sister of Or has connection.
As we make I'm struck by her She's irrefutably 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 popular Just above the And when she Im Sagittarian I a pigeonhole starts to form And is immediately filled pigeon When she says her 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 Sauvignon Vis--vis, Some Empirical comment by me
Not a start I think We're only on pre-dinner And across the room, my Widens her begs me, Be Nice A matrimonial Not ignoring So I the urge to ask Storm Whether is so loose-weave Of a deciding whether to leave Her apartment by the door Or a on the second floor.
The is delicious and Storm, avoiding all meat, Happily sits and As the good doctor, slightly court on some anachronistic aspect of medical history When suddenly insists But the human is a mystery! Science just in a hole it tries to explain 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 but fun rants But I , my lips are sealed. I want 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 -- her meteorological 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 need They are immoral and by greed. Why take When can solve it? Why use When homeopathic Can it? I it's time we all return-to-live natural medical alternatives.
And try as I like, A crack appears In my diplomacy-dike. By definition, I Medicine, I continue, Has either not been to work, Or been not to work. Do you what they call alternative medicine Thats been proved to Medicine.
So you believe In ANY Natural
On the contrary, Storm, Before I to tea, I took a natural Derived the bark of a willow tree 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 briefly abates As my hosts plates but when return with desserts Storm asserts,
Shakespeare it first: ''There are more things in and earth Than in your philosophy'' is just how were trained to look at reality, It explain love or spirituality. How does science psychics? Auras; the afterlife; the of prayer?
I'm aware I'm staring, I'm like a rabbit suddenly In the blinding headlights of crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she just Or the fifh of wine I just quaffed But my diplomacy dike And the held back by its stones Can be back no more:
Look , Storm, I mean to bore you But there's no thing as an aura! Auras is like reading minds Or tea-leaves or or meridian lines These people plying a skill, They are either lying or 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 fucked in the head Lying to some woman whose child has died And telling her you're in with the other side? I think fundamentally sick Do we need to clarify that there's no such thing as a What, are we 2? Do we actually think that Heard a Who? Do we still think Santa brings us gifts? That Michael Jackson didn't facelifts? Are we so stunned by circus tricks That we that the dead would talk to pricks Like Edward?
Storm to her despite my derision Keeps firing off with startling precision a sniper using bollocks for ammunition
You're so sure of position But you're closed-minded I think find Your in Science and Tests Is just as As the of any fundamentalist.
"Wow, thats a good point, let me for a bit" Oh wait, my mistake, its bullshit. adjusts it's views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of so that Belief 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 run through the streets yelling Its a miracle! physics and bin it! has memory! And while it's memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is 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 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
is full of mysteries, yeah, But there are answers out And they won't be By sitting around Looking And isn't life mysterious? sit here and hope Let's up the fucking Pope go watch Oprah Interview Deepak
If wanna watch tele, you should Scooby Doo. show was so cool because every there was a church with a ghoul Or a in a school They beneath the mask and what was inside? The fucking janitor or the who ran the water-slide. Because history Every solved 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 you? Does the notion that may not be a supernatural So blow your noodle That you'd just stand in the fog Of inability to Google?
this enough? Just world? Just this beautiful, Wonderfully unfathomable, natural How does it so fail to hold our That we to diminish it with the invention Of cheap, man-made and Monsters? If you're so Shakespeare Lend me ear:
''To gild gold, to the lily, To perfume on the violet is just fucking Or something 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 what me a hard-on: I am a tiny, insignificant, bit of carbon. I have one life, and it is short and But thanks to scientific advances I get to live twice as as my great great great great uncles-es and aunts-es. Twice as long to this life of mine Twice as to love this wife of mine Twice as many years of and wine Of sharing and getting shitty At hippies fairies on their spines 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.