Give Me Your Brain

Note: I once wrote a play called "The Great Brain Robbery." This poem is from that period of time, in 1973, when I thought some things were much funnier than I do now. And, the basic premise of the play, that we are unconsciously surrendering our brains, still holds up.


Give Me Your Brain

you're certainly a silly one

afraid to give a brain

the whole world's grabbing for it

release it while you're sane


we need a brain like yours to use

in service to our cause

it won't help you once you're crazy

filled with riddles and with flaws


you're no Einstein nor a Curie

just a normal filled with fury

you're no Jesus why not please us

give that brain away


such a silly greedy one

clutching to your head

all your brain cells added up

won't matter when you're dead


give me your brain

it's not so much

a sibling cerebral skunk crutch

let it go now in this exchange

give me oh give me hey give me your brain



sensible

if a circle is

   really a series of

      triangles

         how can we ever

            expect to

               make any sense

                  out of any

                     thing at all?





3 January 2023

 

No One Expected Moses

  No One Expected Moses -- collage by douglas brent smith 4 August 1983