APOLITICAL?

The space between

want and need

is at once a vast gulf

and the width of a hair,

much the same as that

separating luck and greed.

It is only in the eye’s mind

that the gap is insurmountable

and we give up hope

that those who live

in the land of want

will ever look across

the border of tears

and truly see those

who are doomed

to toil endlessly

in the land of need.

Be Very, VERY Scared

The governor of Texas
has suggested that evolution
is nothing more than a theory
and a flawed one at that.
But he won't feel the heat
since, for him, global warming
doesn't exist, banished by wish.
At the Primate Institute they agree
that if he is elected President
they will have no other choice
but to revise their theory
and the chimpanzees are unanimous
that on the evolutionary ladder
man will soon be staring up
at the backside
of the great apes.