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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Poem for the Natural Philosophers (The Naturalists)

bit of old doggerel - not my normal style - in response to an NY Times "The Stone" (their philosophy series) blog post. Think this is the right post.....
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/why-i-am-a-naturalist/

Poem for the Natural Philosophers (The Naturalists)

Oh, silly Scientists - inside your brains
Thinking what you say,
So confident in your words today
That tomorrow we
Won't need words at all
Since Reason is so clearly Natural
Oh, Scientists,  how desperately you wish
Science wasn't Philosophical

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

fragment of something new #2

You were glancing my way
Wearing ruffles and jeans
We talked over drinks
Over the kitchen sink

fragment of something new #1

I consulted my spy
Made a cast of the die
And proceeded to cry