| For all of you celebrating Labor Day, welcome to this Monday’s Poem of the Week. As you are celebrating your day of leisure, I thank my friend Dave for contributing his thought provoking piece. If only we could be so rational! International Rational Day On Rational Day we contemplate The brainy and talented human race In all its various viral forms Resisting standards, rules and norms We celebrate with some we know Relatives and friends and foes Our lumpy, leaky fellow folks Quirky jalopies in fleshy cloaks We huddle, eat and drink and spill With company to drive out the chill Cousins, politics and weather And isn’t it nice that we’re all together? Here we are on planet Earth Let’s do some good and have some worth Sing the I’m a Grown-Up chorus No one else will do it for us Keep a sanitary dwelling Share with our roommates and tone down the yelling Another life is a sucker bet Don’t screw this up, it’s all we get According to atheist tradition Humans create the human condition Along with fire and quarks and fractions Responsibility for our actions Not because anyone told us to But simply because it’s what we can do |
Copyright © 2010 by Dave Grossman
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