Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Evolution

I'm a fish.
Pushing stinging
salt water
through gill slits.

I'm a monkey.
Flitting under
the canopy.
Care-free.
Territorial.

I'm a human.
Weighed down
By emotion.
Complex.
Idiotic.

I'm nothing.
I'm everything.
I'm an animal.

2 comments:

Chris Andrews said...

This is a junker.

Brent Vogelman said...

I like the idea here and i think you should try to do more with it. The parallelism of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas works well and I think you should incorporate it into the first stanza as well. I think with the last stanza you could try swapping the last two lines which would hint at the inherent narcissism of human beings. Just a thought.