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Ah, humanity! (Ah, Bartleby!)
by Joe Clinkenbeard
oh child of genius, how you do strut-
you can do anything! (anything but)
started as monkeys, to evolve over time,
discovered first that sex is sublime!
finding a note, “yer horsey Og steal”
said “fuck it, man” and invented the wheel!
built the pyramids and toiled in the sun
never once thought of good ‘Gyptian fun!
you spoke to the mob, stubborn Julie was dead
"friends, Romans, countrymen" lost Brutus his head!
at the Last Supper (and pressed for time)
put your hand on a glass- water to wine!
rode out with arrows, rode out with Khan,
to make Eurasia one big front lawn!
composed the Ninth unable to hear
signed your name (“Plato”) and sliced off your ear!
“all men are equal,” that is so brave
considering you own a house full of slaves!
rallied the tribes, from here to Sudan,
faced death and Maxim at Omdurman.
sailed all the seas, looked up at the stars...
stepped on the moon, and targeted Mars!
used your smarts to create moving pictures,
what do they say about porn in the Scriptures?
“we’re bigger than Jesus,” Johnny once gaffed,
destroyed their LPs, and then shared a laugh!
murdered the innocent, acted so vile
Holocausts, gulags, and Salem Witch Trials.
November in Dallas, at Kennedy's fall
reloaded quickly (no grassy knoll!)
tore down the wall and captured Saddam
saved France (again) and dropped the A-Bomb!
subdued the world and mapped out the mind,
helped by the work of Phil, Freud, and Einstein!
Yahweh, Jehova, myself, and Allah,
all of those names you give for one God!
ah, humanity, how you do strut-
you can do anything! (anything but
ever beat love: you worship and fawn
bow and curtsy and dote endlessly on,
lose sight of ethics, fight, grasp 'til it's gone,
then hide in the corner, and pray, pray for dawn)
by Joe Clinkenbeard
oh child of genius, how you do strut-
you can do anything! (anything but)
started as monkeys, to evolve over time,
discovered first that sex is sublime!
finding a note, “yer horsey Og steal”
said “fuck it, man” and invented the wheel!
built the pyramids and toiled in the sun
never once thought of good ‘Gyptian fun!
you spoke to the mob, stubborn Julie was dead
"friends, Romans, countrymen" lost Brutus his head!
at the Last Supper (and pressed for time)
put your hand on a glass- water to wine!
rode out with arrows, rode out with Khan,
to make Eurasia one big front lawn!
composed the Ninth unable to hear
signed your name (“Plato”) and sliced off your ear!
“all men are equal,” that is so brave
considering you own a house full of slaves!
rallied the tribes, from here to Sudan,
faced death and Maxim at Omdurman.
sailed all the seas, looked up at the stars...
stepped on the moon, and targeted Mars!
used your smarts to create moving pictures,
what do they say about porn in the Scriptures?
“we’re bigger than Jesus,” Johnny once gaffed,
destroyed their LPs, and then shared a laugh!
murdered the innocent, acted so vile
Holocausts, gulags, and Salem Witch Trials.
November in Dallas, at Kennedy's fall
reloaded quickly (no grassy knoll!)
tore down the wall and captured Saddam
saved France (again) and dropped the A-Bomb!
subdued the world and mapped out the mind,
helped by the work of Phil, Freud, and Einstein!
Yahweh, Jehova, myself, and Allah,
all of those names you give for one God!
ah, humanity, how you do strut-
you can do anything! (anything but
ever beat love: you worship and fawn
bow and curtsy and dote endlessly on,
lose sight of ethics, fight, grasp 'til it's gone,
then hide in the corner, and pray, pray for dawn)