So much of what we do – what we are – is atavistic. We remember, deep in the hippocampus, when we were as free (and as vulnerable) as horses in the field. Predators we, we are also prey, and we can’t forget it. We still inhabit Cape Fear. That’s why we cheer. Gregory Peck tires of being The Hunted and becomes The Hunter.
fastidiously
on fragile stilts of frail cane
stealthy crane stands poised
Once we were hunter-gatherers
tribes grouped outdoors
before the days of yore
now we're hunt and peckers
each cooped indoors
on personal computer keyboards
and way back when
we'd communicate
banging on the drums
yes since then
we've progressed
today we're all
fingers and thumbs
Pines dressed in pearl hues-
bleached cotton sky. Plumes carve
night shades into taint
of crushed bones. Stone
basalt tools grind glacier till
into pallid skin
colored clay, shaped
into ornate bowls that cradle
crow ossein. Hunter.
We're all hunter-gatherers when you get down to it
Not just piles of moolah, but pretty things must admit
Just a dozen or so
My prowess to show
Not bragging but well... around town my stuff's a hit
Modern Day Hunter Gatherers
By Sara Kendrick and Dane Smith-Johnsen
God's great world was so well planned.
He created nature and subsistence for all.
Before cattle feed lots and grocery stores.
Man as hunter-gatherers roamed earth's land.
Respect for nature and life sacrifice was taught.
Early on in mankind's life-
Those men have been gone for days on end.
I have cooked the last of the prairie hens.
If they don't come back soon the food will be all gone.
I have been hunting for miles on end.
To see if there were some nuts, berries, or small animals in dens,
Trying to gather what I can to add to the stores
Before winter comes and scarce will be the food source.
Those hunter-gatherers won't come again.
And if they did, modern day gatherers would win.
We've got guns, traps of steel.
Competing with us, they'd never get a meal.
They may as well face it and stay away!
Globalization's march toward a one world government,
has changed our perceptions,internationally...
geographic borders were latitude and longtitude,
now,it's all about the choreography of attitude...
Hunter gatherers forced search for subsistence,
as work at home becomes non-existent...
migrant workers in check 'cause of documents,
while family at home go hungry without supermarket...
Pre-historic hunters and gatherers,nothing has changed,
we still hunt for and gather our needs
just more conveniently...or for some...unconventionally
World trade and the market economy,
checks in the bank....as,checks at the border,
growing pains while we shift to new order.....
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