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
What If The
Tribal Instinct
Is No Longer
As Evolutionarily
Advantageous As
It Clearly Once Was?
Embrace Us, Oh
Willing Players &
AI Alike...
We Are The
'Non-Players'
Who Cannot
Succumb...
The Neuro-Divergents.
-Gray Squirrel
10-02-2025
Sexual Misgivings
There is this instinctive desire
To fulfill one’s sexual craving,
Programmed into the human psyche,
Just like the beating of the heart,
Which, after millions of years of evolution,
Resists the surgeon’s prerequisite
To stop it before operating.
One would assume that rest would be welcomed,
But instead, the heart rejects this procedure.
The pulse, once activated, must never stop
And beats faster with sexual readiness
To ensure the survival of the species.
How simple and yet complex the concept
Of love’s role is acted upon by
DNA’s spiral ladder of emotional trickery
With physical gratification!
The act itself is aesthetically unattractive
And awkward and is a passage whereby
Bacteria and viruses can breach
The body’s defence mechanisms.
Still, over and over again, the gambit is thrown
(Using pills, devices, and genetics,
Evolutionarily and scientifically employed)
In the belief that pathosis will be thwarted.
The pleasure is worth the risk.
Reasoning is evolutionarily quite new It wouldn't have helped in Krakau
If you were a Jew It wouldn't have helped
If you were so brave As to question authority
As to why you are a slave It wouldn't have helped
If you were a witch Not one tiny bit of hair
Not even a stitch It wouldn't have helped
If you were stuck in Katrina Waiting on some help
From somebody from FEMA It wouldn't have helped
If you were a Prisoner of War Or a Native American
Looking at those really big boats Sailing in towards the shore
It wouldn't have helped If you were an " I Have a Dreamer"
Or simply a citizen that day In Nagasaki or Hiroshima
Yes reasoning this day I pray has surely evolved
For it is many the questions
That need to be solved
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