The Human Animal

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    The Human Animal

    Society is a strange animal,

    Walking a two-way street,

    Six of one, half-dozen of the other,

    Standing on presumptuous feet,

    Society is a fickle animal,

    That lifts us to great heights,

    Pampering egos, false remarks in mortal sights,

    God Bless the ones that live in such a gilded cage,

    For them lifted today will someday be mutilated by age,

    God Bless the life that scales the heights, as birds that sweetly sing,

    Not for all the glitter in the world can society ever be the real thing,

    Better humanity than society.

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    Paint1954 commented on The Human Animal

    08-07-2009

    This was really awesome to me, but then I am not the norm as many people tell me.
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    Starhawk

    08/07/2009

    It is awesome that 'they' unknowingly are celebrating your uniqueness. Stay, off center.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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