Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVOLUTION, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH


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First Line: I haven't read as much as some
Last Line: And where we evolute from here.
Subject(s): Evolution


I haven't read as much as some
Concernin' man, and where he's from.
So I ain't fixed, I calculate,
My own belief to demonstrate
For and ag'inst and pro and con
On evolution, and so on.

My good old mother and my dad
Was all the scientists I had;
And, as for books, they stuck to one
Regardin' how the world begun,
And, when I asked 'em that or this,
Referred me back to Genesis.

Well, maybe they was wrong about
The way creation started out;
But I don't recollect they spent
A lot of time in argument
Concernin' how the human race
First come to settle in the place.

To them what seemed to matter more
Was mostly where we're headed for,
Not what we was but what we'll be
In life and in eternity --
Not where we come from, me and you,
But rather where we're goin' to.

No matter where we started at,
If man or monkey, fish or bat,
We're here, it doesn't matter how.
The most important question now
Is how we read our title clear,
And where we evolute from here.





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