Researching the Origin of Man
Several years ago The Times ran an article offering the opinion of a researcher that man descended from “killer apes.” It caused a big stink in the religious community.
Around the same time, The Times ran a brief blurb that noted that man was a distant relative of the soybean. This didn’t seem to cause any uproar, perhaps because it was brief, several pages back, and didn’t refer to the plants as killer soybeans.
Anyway, the articles inspired me to write a poem. I think its time has come:
Evolution Pollution
Man descends from Killer Apes
And that explains our mania.
We’re related to the soybean
And that explains our crania.
DICK ANDERSON
Bell Canyon
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