Our minds can range like leopards in the wild
Tracking down ideas and soon beguiled
But when our body speaks its needs are plain
Oh,no,it’s that damned broccoli cheese again
Does the one who cooks deserve no praise?
It’s hard to be original every day
And cheese sauce needs both time and care and skill
And broccoli’s original as God’s will.
Without a body there will be no mind
Precisely where it lives is undefined.
But mindlessly we stuff ourselves till gross
And care not if our mind becomes a ghost
The thoughts of Kant and Wittgenstein can charm
Like lovely ladies on a man’s strong arm.
But even men like this will need to eat
And wash their underarms till they smell sweet
The animal we are has many needs
On good food and talk we each must feed
There is no contradiction in the mind
And if we have none ,it is hard to find!
To despise the body is an evil thought
For through its cells the love of Good is sought.
The mind is not removable we find
By its proper use we ‘ll be less blind
But starving refugees and battered wives
Are most concerned to save their natural lives.
And only when their basic needs are met
Will they need to learn the alphabet.
How my heart sings 