Advanced Animal Mutations

It's the latest intellectual thing; it's in vogue
   To dare to say it doesn't make you a rogue
You can let people know that experts can show
   That we are just two-legged animals: It's so!

Between us are no unbridgeable separations
   We are merely advanced animal mutations  
Our music no better than a Thai elephant's clanging
   Our language duplicated by an ape on a keyboard banging

So, I'm terribly sorry to be behind the times here
   But I find all of this to be unutterably *****
For to me it is the height of laughable misinformation
   To try to conceive of an animal with a human's imagination
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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December 23, 2018 at 10:00 PM
only an animal makes war on it's own kind millennia after millennia after...
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December 23, 2018 at 7:56 PM
Imagination surely separates man from the animal kingdom, Gershon. I've yet to see a dog that could do something his ancestors couldn't, yet we surpass our ancestors in many ways because of creative thinking, inventions, imagination. Your poem gets the reader thinking. Well done! Have a wonderful holiday, my friend. Hugs, Carolyn
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