DENY DENY
DENY DENY DENY
I kept both knowing & forgetting
that he was dead At one point
determined to say good-bye then
remembering no need to he’s been
gone such a long time
A new book speculates that some early
humans elephants dolphins & apes
may have become so depressed by the
idea of their own death that they walked
into the woods and hid (and died)
Whereas we the only surviving human
species were able to deny death and
carry on as though immortal By products
of this breakthrough are thought to be
some uniquely human activities Such as:
teaching romantic infatuation torture
Producing both Mother Teresas and Hitlers
Hard to know which it is better to be Orangutans
can recognize themselves in the mirror while
Hitler in his 56th yr. descended into a concrete
bunker married his long time mistress and between bouts of rage killed himself
It is also true that Humans are made of the stuff
of exploded stars oxygen iron iodine and calcium –
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I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free. John Ashbery 1975
Spring 2013
songanddancegirl 
Best go see Man of Steel! Only man’s inhumanity to man keeps him at the primate level. We must think that there are other more humane species and societies out in the galaxies. After all there are 65 billion of them. Someone had to get it right!