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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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