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Darwin’s Avuncular Carbuncular
After meditations long and savage on our human lineage,
Darwin took on the look of a chimp — the very image!
No surprise, some pet owners look like their cats and dogs,
A caveat for any who would make pets of ferrets or frogs.
Darwin scratched his head, thought and thought and thought,
Until in a simian web of wonderment he was fatally caught;
He scratched head with paw, causing carbuncles red and raw,
And made his motto, “We’re monkey’s uncles, one and all!”
There’s a lesson in this not to be taken lightly — Achtung!
Let not Kafka’s Gregor Samsa be your Götterdammerung.
HyC
“Darwin’s Avuncular Carbucular” is one of 81 poems in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, now Live on Amazon.