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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448212" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Homo Sapien</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Smart Apes<br>who rose from the African Plains<br>who learned to eat meat<br>and grow large brains; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see Cro-Magnon man<br>and Neanderthal man; <br>living in the Caves<br>fashioning spear tips; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, Cro-Magnon Man<br>came from the Middle East<br>to Europe<br>to find there Neanderthal, <br>short, <br>stocky<br>slow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could see<br>he had no knowledge of serrated<br>spear tips: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">was no match<br>for my nimble technologies.<br>and the warming climes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I inter-married and /or dispersed him<br>until today I am all that is left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I brought new fire to Neanderthal; <br>in it simmers his remains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see other animals<br>learning fear<br>as the Ape spread<br>from Africa<br>to Java, to Asia<br>and Europe; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were halting migrations<br>twice made<br>driven by climate change; <br> <br>the whole human race<br>dwindled down to 14 thousand souls; <br>a tiny gene pool; <br>the ancestors of our entire progeny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all mutants then<br>from a gene pool too small; <br>we are all genetic experiments; <br>incomplete, <br>plagued by paradox; <br>killers but builders too; <br>peace lovers but war-makers too; <br>creators<br>and destroyers; <br>an animal with<br>a bad genetic start.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the development of the opposable thumb; <br>tooling making; <br>art, technology, the family<br>war and genocide; <br>religiosity<br>and non-religiosity<br>all in the mix.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was tyranny, <br>democracy, <br>fascism, capitalism<br>socialism, communism<br>all from the same brain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here comes History, <br>generational knowledge; <br>books; <br>computers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We Apes touch other worlds.<br>Send our voices into space<br>grasp the nature of the universe<br>invented the concept of Love<br>threaten the planet with permanent<br>change, <br>pollute our own nest<br>invent science, <br>enslave millions, <br>and pave under the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are Homo Sapiens<br>self-named 'Wise Men.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we live in this Irony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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who rose from the African Plains
who learned to eat meat
and grow large brains; 

I see Cro-Magnon man
and Neanderthal man; 
living in the Caves
fashioning spear tips; 

I, Cro-Magnon Man
came from the Middle East
to Europe
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