In a London, top floor flat All walls, white carpet, white cat, Rice partitions Modern art and The a physician, bloke, has his own practice His an actress An old mate of ours from And they're always fun So to dinner come.
The fifth is an unknown, The have just thrown Us together for a because this just arrived from Australia And she'ss moved to London And she's the sister of Or has connection.
As we make I'm struck by her She's irrefutably dark eyes and dark hair But as she I admit I'm a little bit because I notice the tip of the of a fairy Tattooed on popular area above the derrire And she says Im Sagittarian I confess a pigeonhole to form And is immediately filled with When she says her is Storm.
is initially bright and light-hearted But it's not long Storm gets started: You cant anything, is merely opinion She opines, over her Cabernet Vis--vis, Some Empirical made by me
Not a good I think We're only on pre-dinner And the room, my wife Widens her Silently me, Be Nice A warning Not ignoring So I resist the to ask Storm knowledge is so loose-weave Of a deciding whether to leave Her apartment by the front Or a on the second floor.
The food is and Storm, avoiding all meat, Happily and eats As the good doctor, pissedly Holds court on some aspect of medical history When Storm suddenly But the body is a mystery! Science just falls in a When it tries to explain the the of the soul.
My throws me a glance She, like my wife, knows a chance That I'll be off on one of my but fun rants But I , my lips are sealed. I just want to my meal And although Storm is starting to get my I no intention of rocking the boat, Although becoming a bit of a wrestle Because -- like her namesake - Storm has no such for our vessel:
companies are the enemy They promote drug At the cost of the remedies That are all our need are immoral and driven by greed. Why drugs When herbs can it? Why use When homeopathic Can it? I think time we all return-to-live With natural 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 know they call alternative medicine Thats been proved to Medicine.
So you believe In ANY remedies?
On the contrary, Storm, Before I to tea, I took a natural Derived from the 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 debate briefly As my hosts plates but they return with desserts pertly asserts,
Shakespeare said it ''There are more things in and earth exist in your philosophy'' Science is just how trained to look at reality, It doesn't explain or spirituality. How does explain psychics? the afterlife; the power of prayer?
I'm becoming I'm staring, I'm a rabbit suddenly trapped In the headlights of vacuous crap. Maybe it's the Hamlet she just Or the fifh of wine I just quaffed But my dike groans And the arsehole held by its stones Can be back no more:
Look , Storm, I don't mean to you But no such thing as an aura! Reading Auras is like minds Or tea-leaves or or meridian lines These people plying a skill, They are lying or mentally ill. Same goes for peoplewho claim to hear Gods Or Spiritual healers who they've got magic hands.
By the way, Why is it OK For people to they can talk to the dead? Isn't that totally in the head Lying to some crying woman whose child has And her you're in touch with the other side? I that's fundamentally sick Do we need to that there's no such thing as a psychic? What, are we 2? Do we actually think that Heard a Who? Do we still think that brings us gifts? That Michael didn't have facelifts? Are we still so stunned by tricks That we think the dead would Wanna to pricks Like John
to her credit despite my derision Keeps firing off with startling precision Like a using bollocks for ammunition
so sure of your position But you're closed-minded I you'll 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 views based on what's Faith is the 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 I'll be 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 forgets all the poo its had in it!
You show me that it and how it works And when recovered from the shock I will a compass and carve 'Fancy That' on the side of my cock.
Everyone's staring 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 are answers out there And they won't be By sitting around serious And isn't life mysterious? Let's sit and hope Let's up the fucking Pope Let's go Oprah Deepak Chopra
If wanna watch tele, you should watch Doo. show was so cool because every time there was a church a ghoul Or a ghost in a looked beneath the mask and what was inside? The janitor or the dude who ran the water-slide. Because history mystery EVER solved has out to be Not Magic.
Does the that there might be knowledge you? Does the idea one afternoon On Wiki-fucking-pedia might you you? Does the notion that there may not be a So blow your hippy you'd rather just stand in the fog Of inability to Google?
Isn't enough? this world? Just beautiful, complex unfathomable, natural world? How does it so fail to our attention That we to diminish it with the invention Of cheap, man-made Myths and If so into Shakespeare Lend me ear:
''To refined 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 Glorify Krishna and In a post-colonial, Bottled-up and kind of way Then whatever, okay. But heres gives me a hard-on: 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 life of Twice as to love this wife of mine as many years of friends and wine Of sharing and getting shitty At hippies fairies on their spines And on their titties.
And if perchance I have Think but this and all is Wed as well be 10 minutes in time, For all the chance you'll your mind.