Arising out of
The primordial poet
The poetry soup
It's not what evolves
As each writer creates on
Tabula rasa
Like a phoenix does
Dancing in the skies above
Using silly words
Like spelling goop in
A bowl of poetry soup
Alpha and beta
And rising out of
The poetry soup, a group
Best quill and inkers
"I hate it when..." Fill in the blank
We can divine evolutionary purpose for most emotions
Fear, love, compassion, etc...
That rational thought is supposed to leaven
"I hate it when I wake up tired."
When will we grow tired of hate?
Explosions are chaos
Is it chaos that made us?
The stars died for you
(So forget this Jesus Who
actually died for you)
The formation of disorder
Came together as a forger
The star dust then came
In the form of rain
The rain washed each rock
And combined we get schlock
And slowly formed for us from scum
Or was it punctuated equilibrium?
With all the complexities of life
(And all the necessities of life)
Has Evolution been solved
With all the problems that evolved?
The conservation of angular momentum
Is the same direction that it sends’em
How can there be, anything contrary?
And in the repetition of lies
Where, when and with what did ethics arise?
Resolution:
The Evolution theory is s***, and the only kin to an idiot
Only the Brother’s Wit: (Dim, Half and Nit) would believe this
P.S. The Evolution solution is always dilution pollution
And what's confided has been decided by the misguided
There's no star born to the forlorn, that's on dilemma's horn
So balk, (but read in chalk on the side walk, or the trestle's veneer):
"Jesus was here"
The roots of man go so deep
Some little rodent perhaps
Thoroughly relieved the dinosaurs
Are at last all gone.
And here and now
Always a mid point between past and future
The future likewise unforeseeable
Other than a vague sense of continuity.
From that future
A hundred million years from now
This past I sit in
Will be as unknown and unrecognizable
As my little mammalian ancestor’s.
Does this make it all meaningless?
Hell no!
It makes each step and stage
Miraculous.
(8/11/26)
I looked at my toes in the bathtub
Imagined them curling around a tree
Gave myself a shoulder rub
Thought about primal ancestry.
The dentist removed my canine teeth
They reminded me of the wolf beneath
And when insurance took me off his list
I growled like a cheetah being dissed.
Was I just a wild beast?
Like a chimp finding a feast?
Like a bird singing with a mating goal?
Like an elk at a water hole?
I ran into a hostile guy
Said I had told a lie
Said I was a snake, a skunk
So I got into a funk.
Didn't I have a spirit higher?
Wasn't there creative fire?
Couldn't I get respect
for my curious seeking intellect?
Tell me someone tell me please
that I'm not a monkey in the trees.
Though there's a white oak in my yard
Its fun to climb, and not so hard.
So I'll embrace my inner critter
I won't be angry, won't be bitter
I'll transcend it when I can
And I hope you understand:
why when I try to sing a tune
I sound like a wolf howling at the moon.
No ships are mooring at this bay
No ferries dragging to and fro
The visitors that come to stay
The next day pack their bags and go
No planes are landing at this airport
The timetable display is dark
We won’t be welcomed to the board
To be ascended like that lark
The sea’s in sprawling stains of oil
A smell of burning fills the air
The birds lay dead on poisoned soil
Stay home, it’s dangerous out there
Is it the phase of evolution?
Some side effects from climate change?
Authorities have no solution
Stuck in an intermediate stage
There’s no escape, no destination
But nonetheless, I’m thinking of
A better time in reservation
When I evolve in you, my love.
(“The Evolution of Nought”, 2026, original encaustic)
Do you ever ask yourself
How something can come from nothing
Knowing in your bones
There has to be something all along
Even when it’s not technically a thing
That you can’t say really exists or doesn’t
But must be there
At least in some subtle way
For everything else to follow?
Either there was always this subtle something
Or what we have now, regardless
Isn’t a thing at all.
Either way it makes no difference;
A distinction in kind
Dependent on the viewer.
(6/11/26)
Started as a dream
Careful thought
The need to build and develop
Wanting to transform
Muscles being the norm
Softness to hardness
From flab to strong
Firm in lean
The focus is shape
Not wanting to look like an Ape
Weights in lift
No more thinking if
Mirror showing the results
Muscles felt
Training through wise
Total body experience in energize
Proven commitment
Devotion to fitness
Testimonial witness
Muscles being the highlight
A Body I can finally appreciate.
Autistic poet,decades have passed;
and humanity outweighs it's perpetual punishment.
I'll Keep It
Quick...
I'm Not About
Who Was Here
First...
It's About
What's
NEXT!
Un-Stoppable
In-Evitable...
***
That's What Lasts.
-Gray Squirrel
05-04-2026
The Scrub Jays
Deserve All Their
Dominance Too!
Clever And Wise!
Pecking All The
Gray Squirrel's
In The Head...
"Our Horde Is Sound!"
*******
PECKPECKPECKPECKPECK!
-Gray Squirrel
05-04-2026
Humans are devolving
No question
Just dissolving
Into madness
Short-lived
Empty mindedness
If that’s what you feel
So be it
The rest of us sit outside
Nothing left to hide
We are anonymous
‘Cuz the oligarchs won
…see you in the next life.
ROCK
Uncut, Unclear,
Hiding, Waiting, Freezing,
Ninety Millennia, Sixty Years,
Uplifting, Sparkling, Entrancing,
Alive, Afire,
DIAMOND
Celebrating the evolution over time for a 60th Birthday or Anniversary
It was likely lichen's provided the fuel
Evolutionarily leading to mortal and mule
They worked with the fungus that brung us to fore
Elevating our thought to what we thought was more
Than what had preceded, receded and left
We then reseeding, believing the best
It was what our creation and station now made
Us to invent cultivation and blade
Use in one allows us to grow strong and tall
The other decides what will stand, or will fall
It's best in the harvest when feeding us all
The test is the anger that comes with the Fall
When an apex predator behaves unnaturally
The balance of power becomes upsetting
The scale is not just immeasurable
It's behaving dysfunctionally
Reason is cast aside
When sides are paramount
Differences mounting to the sky
Becoming mountainous, unassailable
Forgetting we rose from the ooze
We didn't choose what was discarded
But it was nature made that choice for us
And not something lightly regarded
The borders crossed were nature's own
And no one owned what was provided
No one claimed as theirs alone
What only nature has decided
What's unbecoming to presume
Has become our nature to resume
Some think that challenging is treason
And choosing sides is tantamount to reason
Ignoring what has led us here
In willful ignorance compounded
Compounding what leads only to fear
And thoughts of our ascent unfounded
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