Short Anthropologist Poems

   Monkey around, you’re called a clown
     Live with primates, you’re an anthropologist

   If you’re goofy and serious at the same time ~
     you’ve gone ‘bananas,’ Mr. Psychologist
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I am an armchair detective
An armchair forensic anthropologist
An armchair criminal investigator
I solve every case; and quickly. 

I am an armchair forensic pathologist.
An arm chair blood spatter analytic technician.
I solve murder after murder
On a daily basis....

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Jane Goodall has prosopagnosia
Also called face blindness

She is unable to recognize faces
she acts like she recognizes everyone
In case she met you before

Interesting affliction for a world-famous anthropologist
Who studied chimpanzees and reported back
That they express facial expressions of emotions
Sadness, anger, frustration.

Is it only human faces she does not recognize?...

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burn the eyeglass for a remedy. 
  
  knowing now that the leaves have died before.

A northern winds swollen eyelids cast little doubt.......

            that there will once again be a skeleton diagram.
  that there will once again be a linear vertebrae.


  a little persistent recollection of the bosom unravels
 in the wind and says that he is walking upright. 

looking down at his foot steps science tells him
 that it will be a late spring....

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