Cogito Ergo Sum

Cogito Ergo Sum

by Gideon Burton

I think therefore I am I think I am

as solid as these curds of milky thought

I think quite certain where it is I stand

I think and in my swirling thoughts am caught

I think as tethered semi-solid sure

upon the unembodied continent

where notions rise or fall or sharply blur

but this I think is what I know or meant

how silly are the tangibles that sum

cognition for whom matter seems to matter

and don't you think ideas can soothe or stun

that deep within we know the ink-blot's splatter?

     Rene Descartes, with Hamlet rub your chin;

     to think is not to die, and there's the sin. 

Photograph: flickr - Stephen Poff