an incredulous intelligence

sharing 98.2% of the same DNA

with the chimpanzees who

caged amongst us mighty humans,

sit there for our amusement,

scratching their a*s &

waiting for the next kid in the zoo

to press their stupid face up to the

glass,

we march around as if our

intelligence

was something special,

never pondering for a moment

that while we treat those so very much

like us

with an embarrassing lack of

hospitality,

there may very well be others, elsewhere,

outside our little pubic planet,

who have just a little bit more than

what we have,

a situation in which WE

hold only 98.2% of what they do,

a situation in which the cages are being

sprayed out,

so that sooner or later,

it is US

that will be on display

(the “lucky” members of our decrepit

species),

so that their own little extraterrestrial

rug-rats unaware of their callow

precocity,

can watch us play with our own feces,

masturbate &

pick at the bugs & fleas in our hair,

while we quietly wish that we hadn’t been so

pretentious

when looking at the life around us,

having taken more time to think

before our proverbial

leaps.