Philosophers can’t give you tech
No physical laws no fine formulae
To scrape on a blackboard or wipe
From a whiteboard. Don’t expect to get
Some module for music news pulse
They might speculate
Why it wouldn’t be good
To chip our necks with inputs or outputs
Or perhaps the reverse
Why we should use
Our genes to prevent cure heal
But don’t expect clones that’s
Engineers’ work
God in the sky cherry pie by and by
Might get you to think
Hard enough to do physical work
Thinking can get a good man down
Exercise biceps triceps quads and such
But cranial muscles give me a headache
Really those knots are part of a migraine
Not farfetched at all a cortexual hernia
Everybody loves a good syllogism
It’s the a priori-s that are all the fuss
Do we really see the world as it is
Or just the best image our senses deliver
Descartes had to find certainty for his Self
A complete waste of time
Had he been tortured with bamboo shoved
Under his nails he’d not have a doubt
What was dream what was real
Even de Sade would have stumbled on morals
Had he been more the victim
Less the tormenter
All of the sophists who leapt
Upon Darwin’s thinking
And came up with races
Justified exploitation of colonies
Expansions of empire what idiots
So like today’s who use quantum mechanics
To conclude things can be and not be
By mathematical signs
And find nothing remarkable
That something comes from nothing
Just pops up like daisies then pops
Back again never quite going far enough
To ask why there is anything at all
Or why there is this and not that
Or what does it mean to understand anything
Who is just Who is loved
Why are we at all if we all die
You can’t find these on Google
And you can’t trust some maps
Who determines if sunsets sunrises
Are magnificent or drab
Who gets to work like a slave
Or hang by their thumbs
For the rest of their lives
Philosophers can’t give you tech
You may not want headaches
Many get by not asking
Questions at all
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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