The scientist masturbates
The politician has sex
The scientist counts numbers
The politician counts money
The scientist gets paid for making language
The politician pays people to make language
Things are things outside myself.
Things are words in my brain.
I am a manipulator
I manipulate
I create from past experience
I make the news
The world is round
My body is round
Space is crooked
I am not crooked
I am a politician
I am a scientist.
--- 2005 P.Fitz