Long ago
Long before Taylor Swift
Man became Man
How does not matter
As what does not matter
We existed
Prey for all animals
Saber-Toothed tigers, crocodiles, mosquitos ad infinitum
Man was not atop the feeding chain
Man was not on the bottom
What saved us
We smelled bad
We tasted worst.
And we learned from the other species.

How to speak
To feed
To love
We roamed this planet
For eons upon eons
Our footprints mark the soil
Bones scattered across the plains, valleys, mountains everywhere.
Sometimes alone
Sometimes together
Like the other species we were social.

Man changed with challenges
From Mother Earth.

Floods, quakes, and lastly the last Ice Age

The great glacier retreats.
15000 years ago
Alive and ready to spread
To open land across the globe.
Learning from the lions, tigers, and bears.
How to stay alive
How to kill
Lions tigers and bears
And
Man.

And Man likes the taste of Man
Man tasted of Spam
Goodbye Neanderthals
Goodbye Cro-magno

Man approximately 10000 individuals
No known names
Earth no name
First known name
KI
In Sumerian
2900 BC

World population
Maybe three million.

Man spreads KI
Man covers Terra
Man abuses Der Welt
And all beneath the sky.

Man is war
Mar is slavery
Man is greed, envy, pride, lust, gluttony, and wrath.
Sloth is a virtual in the age of mass species suicide.
Every man woman and child committing every sin in hopes of meet Taylor Swift.
I
One man
Have decided enough
No more am I a homo sapien.
A wise man.

A Neanderthal
I resign from humanity
To rejoin my genes
Neanderthal
Beaten from me by nuns.
Lefthandedness
A welcoming smile
An occidental bump at the base of my skull
Short arms
Short legs.

Abandoning humanity and all its evils.
To walk free of learning
To see the stars
To read the wind
To meet Taylor Swift
No longer a Man

Just only me
And my name is not Ugh.

Foto of Talor Swift and my Nephew Frank A Smith IV