You always find me when I least expect you (2)

You always find me when I least expect you,
When I’m lost or lonely I’ll turn to find you there
You always find me when I least expect you,
When reading, walking, even combing my hair.

So frequently I’ve no clue where to go,
How to develop, the way to carry on, 
Until you appear unexpectedly and so
I become most able indeed to tarry on.

Or when I have no ideas, no way to start
Treading mental water, or just pacing,
You hit the bullseye with a single dart
And your ideas I’m soon to be tracing.

Though it’s never when I’m working at my desk,
And never when I’ve a notepad in hand,
My dear, my love I must confess,
You’re always welcome whene’er you land.

I don’t know if you are just in my head
(If not I should be co-authoring you)
Without you my career’d surely be dead
Thank God
You always find me when I least expect you.

You always find me when I least expect you

It happened to Dewey while riding a horse,
It often happens on journeys of course of course.
To Heisenberg at midnight in the park,
He found light where it was quite quite dark.

To Kekule it came to him in a dream,
That showed him the make-up of Benzene.
While Einstein, bored in the patent offices,
Plucked relativity from inside his cortices.

Philo Farnsworth saw in plough-made incisions
A way to transmit pictures for electronic vision.
And Darwin, from reading Malthus on population,
Found his way, following years of notation.

Loaded with information as clouds with rain,
Made discoveries formulate in their brains.
But only when at rest, only when unforced,
Were these thoughts from soup divorced.

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Note: Written following a lecture on Information and Creativity (where I got most of these examples - the rest came from this article) and with this song mind a bit too.