The Complete Stories - Page 48

I Just Make Them Up, See!

Oh, Dr. A. -


Oh, Dr. A. -


There is something (don't go 'way)


That I'd like to hear you say.


Though I'd rather die


Than try


To pry,


The fact, you'll find,


Is that my mind


Has evolved the jackpot question for today.


I intend no cheap derision,


So please answer with decision,


And, discarding all your petty cautious fears,


Tell the secret of your vision!


How on earth


Do you give birth


To those crazy and impossible ideas?


Is it indigestion


And a question


Of the nightmare that results?


Of your eyeballs whirling,


Twirling,


Fingers curling


And unfurling,


While your blood beats maddened chimes


As it keeps impassioned times


With your thick, uneven pulse?


Is it that, you think, or liquor


That brings on the wildness quicker?


For a teeny


Weeny


Dry martini


May be just your private genie;


Or perhaps those Tom and ferries


You will find the very


Berries


For inducing


And unloosing


That weird gimmick or that kicker;


Or an awful


Combination


Of unlawful


Stimulation,


Marijuana plus tequila,


That will give you just that feel o'


Things a-clicking


And unsticking


As you start your cerebration


To the crazy syncopation


Of a brain a-tocking-ticking.


Surely something, Dr. A., Makes you fey And quite outrt. Since I read you with devotion, Won't you give me just a notion Of that shrewdly pepped-up potion Out of which emerge your plots? That wild secret bubbly mixture That has made you such a fixture In most favored s.f. spots-


Now, Dr. A., Don't go away-


Oh, Dr. A. - Oh, Dr. A. -


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Tags: Isaac Asimov Science Fiction
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