Anthropological Flashback
They say
way back we became
*****sapiens
They say
we evolved slowly
from ape to man
This unsettling news was force fed to me
through public education shock therapy
Anthropological flashback
has me gritting my teeth
As an adult, got strapped into a metal chair
for being non-conformist,
having old-time radical views
They be giving me cave man torture
using modern tools
in the year 1982
Got so much electrical current
coursing through me,
I don’t rightly know
what’s science fiction or what’s reality
They’re gonna get my thinking standing upright
No more Neanderthal biblical thoughts
lumbering through my head
Anthropological flashback
has me scratching my fuzzy brow
How a monkey became human
has me wondering,
how come an ox didn’t become a cow
Wrong way logic
must be the God-spirit roaming free in me
Could it be evolution
ain’t nothing but a Stone Age Tarzan theory
Anthropological flashback
has got my ancestors under attack ...
I never read where Adam had a daddy,
who was a gorilla named King Kong
Or Eve having a mother who was a chimpanzee,
that just sounds so plain wrong
Looks like they got a lot of work to do
to successfully brainwash me
But I’ll trade you two bunches of bananas for a coconut,
if my mighty fine
uncle Joe Young comes swinging from a tree
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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