1. We can be noble, we can be mean,
Most often we’re somewhere in between.
2. Reason and morals are cast to dust
When one is blinded by the fire of lust.
3. Naught we know can the cosmos span
Save the measuring mind of puny Man.
4. For fast and fleeting orgasmic pleasure
People have lost their name and treasure.
5. No one is always good or bad;
No one for ever is glad or sad.
6. The body’s beauty is all outside;
There’s blood and flesh and filth inside.
7. We have affected the world indeed,
With thought and word and drastic deed.
8. Man is the only earthly creature
That thinks the past and of the future.
9. Those who are great and good in fame
May not at home be quite the same.
10. Some are poor and some are wealthy;
Fortunate those who just are healthy.
Spurts of Thought 