The Body and the Brain (An Experimental Sonnet) <br /> <br />Once, the body quarreled with the brain. <br />The former sulked: “Proud you are, and vain! <br />Although your perch placed so highly is, <br />The plain and patent fact you seem to miss <br />Is that I shelter you in part of me, <br />For which kindness grateful you should be. <br />Instead, all day you make me slog and work <br />While, gloatingly, you command me with a smirk! ” <br /> <br />“To slave your duty is, to drive my right. <br />But often have you dared this norm to slight! <br />At times you prostrate lie when, to your level, <br />In pulling down my lofty seat you revel! ” <br />Complained the brain. 'We’re quits” the body said; <br />“To HIS own order of things aren’t we wed?<br /><br />Dr. Tulsi Hanumanthu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-body-and-the-brain/
