Thursday, December 22, 2022

boney fingers

they find
the bone of a finger in a cave
and this
changes everything.
it's a whole new
line
of prehistoric
men and women,
move over paleolithic man.
slide down
mister neanderthal.
these were thinkers,
look at the way
the finger curves.
they put it to
their chin.
artists, writers, philosophers.
look how
large their foreheads
were.
they sat straight up
and pondered,
they weren't just out there
killing
the wild animal
that galloped in herds.

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