THOUGHTFUL CHOICE
I thought I'd write a poem about choice
But scientists said I had no choice about that thought
I thought, I thought, that it would be a nice thing to do
But the scientists said whom are you referring to?
So I thought, I thought, that “I”, which is only a thought
Which I was completely misled on by the way
Would open a document and start writing about choice
But the scientists said it wasn't even my voice.
By the time I got to the third verse I thought, I thought
“This is completely mental!”
To which half the scientists seemed to concur
But the rest started arguing that the term was too obscure
'Thank God for philosophers' I thought, I thought
They'll clear this mess up, to which they had a retort:
If you are genes and the reaction to what has gone
Then whatever you are is a forgone conclusion
The scientists said “Hey, what about random?”
The philosophers shouted back
“A decaying isotope may have an infinitely long non-repeating pattern”
So I thought, I thought a thought to write this poem
In a unique way in only which I can
But the philosophers and scientists have convinced me
That it was probably written by the universe when it began.
Ade Crossen
Something you should know:
Adrian Crossen is middle aged. He likes to do creative things like art, music and poetry (when he isn’t helping a company sell things for a pound or being lazy).
Joy to Enjoy today:
12.01am: Ancient Champion - Under Pressure »»
1am: Ade Crossen - Thoughtful Choice »»
2am: Jackie Stein - The Battle of Social Media »»
3am: Dave Pitt - Spiderman Brendan »»
4am: Jimmy Andrex - Festival of Brexit »»
5am: Brendan Hawthorne - We Are Here »»
6am: Ahmed Magare - We Cannot Walk Alone »»
7am: Emma Purshouse - Mermaid on the Number 3 »»
8am: Rue Collinge - That Year »»
9am: Deborah Alma - Mother of Pearl »»
10am: Steve Pottinger - Fatima »»
11am: Jay Lewis - Betrayal 1991 »»
12pm: Hollie McNish - Honestly »»
1pm: Emma Purshouse - Five Minutes on a Midland Train »»
2pm: Rebecca Stanhope - Take Your Hands Off Me »»
3pm: Michael Pederson - Here in a Glasgow Tenement - Not Asleep, Not Awake Either »»
4pm: Glyn Phillips - Doorways »»
5pm: PixieVic - Curious Choices »»
6pm Christian Present - Poeme »»
7pm John Robinson - My Reply To You »»
8pm David Benjamin Blower - 47 »»
9pm Emma Purshouse - Feeling Low? »»
10pm Steve Pottinger - Jam today: Mrs Veronica Blake’s manifesto for a brighter future »»
11pm Jay Lewis - The Starling 1976 »»
