The intricate thinkers, they expound for me
All the great ideas from life's learning tree
Picking the latest of theories to entertain
And explaining how deep one's thinking can be....
The power of positive thinking, they're sure
Will allow the most battered of minds to endure
They can put the universe in one single grain
While accepting the latest eastern thought de jour....
Kant said this, Heidegger said that
Nietzsche is as sly as a Cheshire cat
No, Descarte, he knows where its at
I'd rather sit around and chew the fat
With original ideas of my friends.....
No doubt Gautama Buddha was much smarter than I
No doubt Bertram Russell's writings better apply
Than anything I have ever attempted to say
Great Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi was quite a guy....
My concern about all thinkers is easy to state
Even with their reputations so far beyond great
It's that I prefer to formulate my own interplay
When I let myself get involved in any debate....
Jean Paul Sartre' expounds his ideas deep
Freud will tell you about when you sleep
Poor Richard's Almanack, look before you leap!
But all these brilliant guys, you can keep
For I still prefer the thinking of my friends....