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Author: Jax Malcolm
Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor - Reviews: 2 - Published: 09-10-04 - Updated: 09-10-04 - id:1716141
The left wing says, "Yes."
The right wing says, "No."
The rest, on the other hand, is in between
Who here is the right part?
Those who say "no"?
Certainly not!

Here, we have an entire species
All bickering and shouting
Like the brothers they shouldn't be
Why is this so, praytell?
Not one of them understands the other!
How foolish the children are!

When the children are told one thing
They find it hard to stray
They believe they are the only right
And that all others are evil
And yet, they plug their ears and hide their heads
They ignore the shouts of their brothers

And here we are, billions of years
Since a chimp first walked the earth
And still, we don't step back and realize
That there's more to the painting than just our corner
And that the people looking at the same painting
Are just that -- people too

But here we are, my fellow sheep
Upholders of someone else's bias
Planted in us by our ancestors
Who taught us that thinking outside the box
And inside the box and all around the box
Is not the way to go

My poor, fellow sheep!
How do we agonize over this?
Not at all, my dears!
For somehow, it's been right all along
To say that there's a right and wrong way to do things
And that it's okay to call the wrong way evil!



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