(Satirical poem about rational French philosopher Renè Dèscartes)
MEDITATIONS ON A PARK BENCH
.................................Cogito, ergo sum...?
I am my thoughts, theories traced in the mind’s eye. When thought “I am” dies, the universe will perish too, because it’s my own peculiar notion that God is the guarantor of all existence, so that fiends shan’t dupe me with lies.
Common sense (fibs as well, I suspect) is like binary noughts and dashes, chips in a machine that is my brain; a digital domain for data stored as gigabytes, maybe with odd masterly flashes of true intellect.
My mind is a profusion of grand schemes and bagatelles, somewhat less than genius but not quite delusion. Ball-point pen poised above a scrappy notebook, I cogitate wildly about bum deals man and history proposed - mainly a bunch of flops and maudlin ideals.
I’m a worthless wretch slouching on a park bench… fussy folks byroad the stench.
With broad brushes I frame my thoughts in gaudy paint, then aerograph the world’s wealth on my private Cockaigne, wickedly flipping all and sundry to a decorous death.
Citizens maunder by in assorted attire. I sneakily wave my handkerchief at them, scheduling all of us to die.
Cogito, ergo sum, Lt. : I think, therefore I exist.
By Psyche.
Copyright: Sylvia Maclagan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007.
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
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