Neanderthalic Antics: Narrative Verse
Are they us? Or our opposite?
Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
Neanderthalic Antics: Cantos I-III
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
Do not trifle with stars or souls, he said,
My colleague of that research institute,
Our home for decades plus, since our ascent
Out of college to scientific heights,
Recruitment by rich states, with salaries,
And perks, and prestige seeming without end
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