COMMUNICATION:
Media, Arts, & Society | October 6, 2003
IT'S
ODD
YOU
SHOULD
MENTION
AN
ODYSSEY...
A
Posting to New York Arts Magazine On-Line Forum,
In
Response to Odyssey Of A Cockroch
Copyright
© 2003 Yoko Ono
Most
successful of all
the world's many creatures
Are
insects and humans,
distinct in most features.
The
insects succeed
by raw instinct, primeval;
We
humans, by intellect,
knowing good, knowing evil.
For
insects, genetics
dictate what will be;
For
humans, our will
will set each and all free.
For
insects, the body's
the sum-total whole;
For
humans, there's also
the conscience, the soul.
Power
in insects,
from muscles and jaws;
Power
in humans,
from rights and from laws.
For
insects, there's strength
in sheer numbers, diversity;
For
humans, variety's
often seen as perversity.
Moreover,
there remains
in the greatest and least
Of
all Homo sapiens
a wild, untamed beast.
Survival
by nature
is typically cruel,
Often
at odds with
our professed Golden Rule.
Too
often is uttered
"I, me, mine, and my" --
Too
much of just "How?"
and not enough "Why?"
Abusing
the weak,
lusting blood shed vermilion,
Too
often our hearts
have devolved to reptilian.
To
be truly human,
not merely a bug,
We
must love one another;
two helped with one hug.
But
whether we're human,
or a six-legged being,
Reality's
real;
it is ours for the seeing.
So
let us enjoy
our bug's-eye-view odyssey,
And
see all the oddities
here that we oughta see.
"Bug"
Doug Drenkow
Writer,
Scientist, Artist,
All-Too-Human
Being
www.DouglasDrenkow.com
May
I recommend some other of my poetry?
On
the menu you will find...
http://home.earthlink.net/~progressivethinking/media/medi25.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~progressivethinking/rights/righ15.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~progressivethinking/strategy/stra13.htm
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