A Bit Of Both (Poem)

Dull apes 
with a dull skull
decided to evolve.

Proved that 
we aren’t just 
wind and dust.
(Bob Dylan)

Besting each other
and feasting on each other
we’ve made tiny Darwinian steps.

Yes
we used gas chambers 
we condemned the blackness 
not of inside
but outside
we raised illusions
to slave people
on the permafrost of religion.

Now 
we’re proud
in our own quantum alienations
and pools of tears.

Yes
we also saw
nicety through our choices.

we used the sticks of the constitution
to drive away the dogmatic dogs
we used the flames of reason
to burn the bullshit
we used the stars of science 
to play with god
and delay the doom.

we 
as
gravity beings
oscillate between 
poetry and prose
killings and kindness
long knives and short knives
and
between
caves and craves
to graves.

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