[Writingworkshop] Psychobabble and Name Dropping

[Neale Morison]

Psycholingo

You may speak of your shamans and mystics,
You can mention your lies and statistics,
That bullshit you'll bear with,
It doesn't compare with
The bollocks they talk in linguistics.

There are dreamers and hopeless romantics,
There are manics, depressives and frantics,
Though their picture is hazy,
They're nowhere as crazy
As students of psychosemantics.



Paraphrasus Interruptus

2008-02-10

Marvell, circumspect in so many respects,
Wasn't coy when confronted with not enough sex,

Lord Tennyson said it and so did Pavlova
'Tis better than nothing to get your leg over,

Shakespeare remarked, in the passion of youth,
Get it on, do it now, come on baby, forsooth.

Keats, was it not, who would cry without cease,
For Homer's sake, Chapman, just bring us more Greece

Beckett, for brevity, up it did sum,
With his da da da, da da da, da da da, bum

A rose is a rose is a rose not a phallus,
When cockless, go Toklas, as Gert said to Alice

Hemingway married for all he was worth,
And we know what he meant by the movement of earth,

Cole Porter when thinking of birds and of bees,
Used to wish he'd done more while he still had his knees

Said Charles, in addition to fightin' and foragin'
Species need this to arrive at an origin.

Some say the Bible knows which way is north,
And provides clear instruction on how to go forth,

The universe ages and grows ever limper,
But when it began it was not with a whimper,

Agreement is general; wisdom, with luck,
Can all be condensed in a single word.



13/02/2008 08:56

Mr A

Prior to refuge in the bottle,
Try the thoughts of Aristotle,
Politics within a city,
How to drum up fear and pity,
Tips on tragedies and farces,
Hints on how to reach katharsis,
(Like nirvana, only Greeker)
How to be a public speaker,
Physics, regular and meta,
What is good and what is better,
Osophy and ology,
More than one apology,
Want a book on self-improvement?
Mr A kicked off the movement,
How a man should live his life,
Even when to get a wife,
Goals to which we should aspire,
How to overcome desire,
His failure to be feministic,
Makes some people go ballistic,
Others, in frenetic rages,
Blame him for the Middle Ages,
There was a long paralysis,
In awe of his analysis,
For Mr A a little think,
Was more amusing than a drink.



14/02/2008 12:56
Psychobabble

Book Review

A man who has only a hammer'll
Treat all as a nail, and a scammer'll
Fit all to his theory,
Untestable, eerie,
Unconscionable and bicameral.


-- 
Neale Morison
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