11-06-2025, 08:42 AM
These Three
What did they do,
I want to know,
before they had
the benefits
of sex, drugs, and
rock-and-roll?
For drugs they had
fermented stuff
and drugs the witch-doctor
made from plants
burnt or ground up and blown
up your nose.
For rock-and-roll
they beat on things
and sang and danced
as their parents
taught them many
winters back.
As for sex, they seem
to have managed
without institutionalizing
or otherwise protecting
those little confusions
that mindfully beset us.
Was it better? Don’t be daft.
They died like mayflies
just as we’ll seem
to have done, next century,
as they still drum, drink,
and make the beast.
What did they do,
I want to know,
before they had
the benefits
of sex, drugs, and
rock-and-roll?
For drugs they had
fermented stuff
and drugs the witch-doctor
made from plants
burnt or ground up and blown
up your nose.
For rock-and-roll
they beat on things
and sang and danced
as their parents
taught them many
winters back.
As for sex, they seem
to have managed
without institutionalizing
or otherwise protecting
those little confusions
that mindfully beset us.
Was it better? Don’t be daft.
They died like mayflies
just as we’ll seem
to have done, next century,
as they still drum, drink,
and make the beast.
Non-practicing atheist