07-16-2012, 05:14 AM
A fly crawled across my ceiling today,
My white-painted Cartesian plain,
Looked down and winked multifaceted eye –
I felt reality drain.
I was seduced by the absence of reason,
Cogito, ergo… then some
Idiot insect with graphs on its feet
Drowned happily in my rum.
There goes Rene, I thought with a smirk,
So much for coursing the plot;
If there’s a moral (I’m not sure there is) –
Here’s what ol’ Descartes forgot:
Never let gravity screw you around,
Careful of at whom you wink,
Don’t walk in straight lines, but most of all don’t
Mess with a madwoman’s drink.
My white-painted Cartesian plain,
Looked down and winked multifaceted eye –
I felt reality drain.
I was seduced by the absence of reason,
Cogito, ergo… then some
Idiot insect with graphs on its feet
Drowned happily in my rum.
There goes Rene, I thought with a smirk,
So much for coursing the plot;
If there’s a moral (I’m not sure there is) –
Here’s what ol’ Descartes forgot:
Never let gravity screw you around,
Careful of at whom you wink,
Don’t walk in straight lines, but most of all don’t
Mess with a madwoman’s drink.
It could be worse