Which Heritage Shall I Embrace?

Decisions, decisions.

Which Heritage Should I Embrace?

 

By Elton Camp

 

According to what some scientists say

Little different from a chimp is my DNA

 

“From common ancestors you both came.

Evolution is the process that we now name.”

 

“You and the chimpanzee are now both alive

Only because natural selection let you survive.”

 

Since they assure me that this is absolutely true,

There is a tempting action I wonder if I may do

 

May I pick the heritage with which to identify

If so, being a chimp is something I might try

 

Nobody expects a chimpanzee any laws to obey

For animals are free and not constrained that way

 

Also, he doesn’t have a monthly mortgage to pay

A chimp can live free in a tree & be happy to stay

 

If he should happen to locate a coy simian mate

He needn’t bother with sending flowers or a date

 

The chimp has no need to make payments on a car

Since he can swing on a vine if he’s going very far

 

And when the chimpanzee finally comes to die

To assign him to a blazing place nobody will try