Hairy Eugene

Had Homo Erectus not had sex with Neanderthals – and
had rape not played a possible role – we’d
a) not have killed them, b) the bathtub claw
of each surviving gene

wouldn’t have dragged many of us down
into embarrassing behavior, and c)
we’d have all dressed like Boba Fett now.

People: if we don’t realize it’s hot
to use our brain, and that complex life is not
a yellow stingy thing but can figuratively be understood
without such creative auxiliaries as
cheese graters; if we don’t staunch sentimentalism over
the hybrid baby's cute twitch of mustache,
I swear to God, another war’d break out.