#weareallmonkeys
Watch us as we swim in
Our first weeks:
Tadpole, lizard, primate -
Wobbly commas
Cradled by the same bone,
The same blood,
The same love.
Out in the light
We divide ourselves
Lay down boundaries
And definitions
Think it makes things simpler
Stone Age brains struggling
With numbers bigger than ten -
Tribe is what you can see
On a clear day.
But now the drums are
Beating faster
Light-speed flickers -
Thought touching eye
Touching thought
The genius of our genus
Bending ignorance
To better ends
Today we say
There is one colour:
Bright yellow
And one taste shared
Around the world
Hands raised
Hands clasped
While one calm gesture
Redefines ridiculous.
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