Pig Philosophy
A whim of pleasure
Speaks to the wind,
And a sigh of murder
Cannot win.
Who’s to say one pleasure is
Better than another?
Pain and pleasure,
Life’s two sovereign masters.
Pushpin is just as good
As poetry?
Pursuing my pleasures
In a void of toxicity.
The lowest and slowest
Are life’s basic needs.
Sex, drugs, and fine foods
Is all simple-likes need.
A step higher into cultured reliefs,
Art and music indeed;
Such dignity,
Not like the baser needs.
Step one more,
The mind of science and/or spiritual needs.
*****sapiens source of
Elation,
All found in empirical seeds.
Though it is better to be
A human dissatisfied than
A pig satisfied;
Better to be Socrates dissatisfied
Than a fool satisfied.
Ours species two sovereign masters;
Pain and pleasure…
Nature’s selective possessors.
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