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A Poem for Geeky Skeptics

8/11/2015

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GO BOLDLY
   by Scot Bastian (with apologies to Dylan Thomas)
Is there a quark in your belfry?
A meme in your bonnet?
Do you, and yours, wax eusocial?
Do you try to grok the neurosciences?
Are you a heterogeneous, Homo sapiens, or, perhaps, a transhumanist?



Do you argue:
Charon or Karon?
Sagan or Tyson?
Cosmos 1 or 2?
Star Wars or Star Trek?
Kirk or Picard?
And who is right:
Hawking and Musk, or Krause?
Are your dreams peppered with the stars of the cosmos, rather than the stars of    Hollywood?
Do you love NASA more than the NFL?
Do you dream of androids dreaming of electric sheep?
Do you love spiders and snakes?

Do you ask these questions--and dream these dreams?
Then, I extend my welcome. 
For you and I are in the same tribe.

We are star stuff.


I exhort you!
Do not go gentle into that vacuous pit of the culturally inane
Rage, rage against the dumbing of the mind!

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8/23/2015 12:46:05 am

Needs more sex.

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Carl Nelson link
9/11/2015 06:09:11 am

When you re-cap your experience in follow-up posts I am looking for gritty realism (that is, lots of sand) when discussing your sexual escapades - which I am assuming will be frank, no-holds-barred accounts of the libidinous revelry we know occurs!

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5/23/2016 11:11:08 am

These are really quite daring and sharp lines. However, every opinion has a right to exist. I consider that this poem is not intended for the masses.

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