Take That, Descartes

Mike Essig
Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
Cogito Ergo Sum

You got it backwards,
causing much consternation.
Neuroscience now says
we are all thinking bodies.
Our toes and tongues speak.
A fingertip on a nipple
expresses a felt thought.
No mystical split exists;
no world without flesh.
World and flesh are one.
Mind and body inseparable.
Touch thrills the mind.
The mind amplifies touch.
We are; therefore, we think;
complete in a living world.
No need to know so much.


Other Voices

A sanctuary for orphaned poems and prose.

Mike Essig

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Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.

Other Voices

A sanctuary for orphaned poems and prose.