In olden times illness reigned,
Now sickness is the trend;
Illnesses have inanimate cures,
Sickness needs a friend.
Friends are now in short supply,
Godmen take their place;
But what is a godman next to a friend
Who listens more than says.
So better be ill than be sick
Is a friend’s advice to you;
But to profit by a friend you must
Your accoutrement forego.
Illness comes from bad intake,
Sickness from within;
The former is a seasonal imbalance,
The latter the soul’s ruin.
No doctor may ever reach the soul,
Being sunk in soulless lucre;
The best of them need friends as much
As you, me, and the lonely joker.
But the glittering world of gadgetry
Has not much use for friends;
So better be ill than be sick,
And sing praises of the trends.
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