Sunday, April 24, 2005

The Philosopher Goldfish

Hmm...Hmmm..Hmmmm
What?
Hmm...Hmm
Hmmmmmm
What?
Why?
Hmm
Where was I?
The Meaning of Life is...
What?
What did I say?
Hmm.
If a tree falls in the forest,
What’s a tree?
What?
Hmm.
The Meaning of Life is...
What?
Why?
Hmm.
All reality is an illusion,
So
What?, Wait.
What did I say?
Dust in the Wind
Hmm
Why?
I’m Hungry
What’s a tree?
Why does it fall?
What falls?
The Meaning of Life is...
I’m Hungry
McDonald’s Egg McMuffin
What?
Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song
Hmm . . . What?. . .Hmm
Death is only the..
McDonald’s Egg McMuffin
Who?
I’m Hungry.
Dust in the Wind?
What wind?
Frankly My Dear I don’t give damn.
All reality is an illusion.
So I am not hungry.
What?
I’m Hungry.
The Meaning of life is...
Hmm
Hmmm
Hmmmmm

6 comments:

Steph said...

Um... I'm now utterly confused, but thoroughly intrigued...

Dylan said...

It's supposed to be a poem. I came up with the concept while watching the Canadian Music Awards.

Steph said...

And the Canadian Music Awards inspires philosophical thought in you? Generally music awards inspire sleepy thoughts in me...

Dylan said...

(laughs slightly) I just felt like writing a poem of somesort, and the idea of a goldfish philosopher came to mind. The joke is that it can't remember what it just philosophized.

Steph said...

Yeah, I got the joke. I was amused. It reminded me of the whale from Hitchhiker's.

Dylan said...

The whale? hmm, I guess there is something of the whale in the Philosopher Goldfish. I never thought about this.