The Evolution

there was a man who
had a lot of funny ideas about
the way the world worked, and
more specifically, how
wethepeople came to be
and because he was, after all
more than a little ridiculous
they laughed at him and didn’t
bother to burn his books

which might have been a mistake
in the long run
because by the time it got to
let’s amend theconstitution
and we don’t necessarily hold these truths to be
selfevident anymore there had
already been a big fuss
about the monkeyman in the
south somewhere
and this time nobody said that it
wasn’t important

and eventually they all forgot
just how funny it had been to
begin with and
justliveandletlive people
went ahead and started to think maybe
he had a point before
they were convinced that it was
all too dangerous

and just the other day
somebody said if
there really was an
intelligent designer
and if the universe didn’t just
bigbanglookhereiam
then they probably would have
given Kansas a
better board of education

and if, as the wise men say, man indeed created god
in a proofdeniesfaith sort of way
then what is religion
really but a complicated form of

narcissism?