"The Fly" by Karl Shapiro (poetry reading)

"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small. All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings. He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings...." John Haldane, professor of genetics, was asked by a famous theologian "What inference might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles." "Duncan Phyfe" made fine furniture. "Gargantua" was a giant, created by the bawdy French writer Rabelais, who built an abbey devoted to pleasure, where the only law was "fay çe que vouldras". Aleister Crowley, once called The Wickedest Man In the World, adopted this principle as "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"