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Homo Sapience Sapience

He was born with a bushy round follicle-free head and walks with two legs, because he is a Neanderthal(1) mutant, for he is a mutational product, he is an android(2) not found in the evolutionary tree, and that’s why he was so sad; he began to roam the surface of the earth, he climbed up the mountains, crossed the rivers and traveled over the expansion of fields beyond the horizon; to soothe the sorrow of being alien he labored to find another android similar to him; and if he finds one, he is forced to lay her down on the ground and sow the seeds to establish a new genealogical table; the seeds grown to Hominidae.(3) As time goes by his hair on his head became thinner because the roots of his hair decayed from no follicle and at last, he became bald; each time a sun-ray reflects on his head his anguish grows in the valley of misery he is trapped in and leading his poor life. He escapes from the valley and crawls into a cave(4) peculiar from all the other caves he’d seen so far, and he fixed a flag. As the wind rises the flag streams, when the flag flutters the sky roars to pierce the ears; then the sky falls to the ground from a gap between the roars gushing out ashes and fires. The fire heats to burn the stones lying here and there by the water’s edge. When sky, earth, fire and the stones intermingled in one it tortures the Neanderthal with the red-hot iron of death, then, *****Sapience survived from breathing the oxygen that Neanderthal left behind; and as day grows taller and taller *****Sapience finds the way to preserve oxygen; thereupon, Hominidae mixes this excess oxygen to produce black powder with the ratio of 10KNO3 + 3S + 8C, and stuff it into a bamboo-tube; tomorrow therefore explodes, time stops, the sea swallows the earth. As things come this far, though there may be worse things waiting in the future, the crippled time, comes with quick steps winding a malfunctioning clock. NOTE: 1. *****Neanderthalensis and *****Sapience are different *****species, therefore, though *****Sapience Sapience is not a mutated species, but just so regarded in this poem.. 2. Android: in this poem this phrase is synonymous to synthetic organism rather than electro/mechanical robot. 3. Hominidae: this term is used as existing modern Human. 4. Francis Bacon, Idra Specus.

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