sapien song
lost & melting on some road
in the Waikato I’ve driven this one at least a hundred times before one-strip airport buckled wheelrim in the curb Women’s Refuge well-funded nestled between two bars welcome mural is Much Ado About Cattle used to pass this town fortnightly visiting an ex-girlfriend her mother really beat her with Bible verses back then I’d just decided to study human evolution thought I could’ve given her mother a real battering back if only I’d known how to get a word in shaved the beard from God early into the study began to see Australopithecus drop from trees knees straightening to the wonder of walk Habillus making some shape out of stone knuckles are co-opted for fighting tastiest animals are arranged into homemade herd God’s place is erected on a tired, worried lot overgrown & empty between cattle & cemetery making order of things in a place of orderless things & later the roads to link the moneys of one town to another trucks to lumber the lanes trafficking desires of the new mind to & fro so hungry for exotic fruits rarer meats televisions a song or two & then more silence at dusk today, I see that truck passing me lugging bottled water to my city & I know to follow it til the road forks at the corner of the church’s carpark then turn right onto the highway & keep driving myself along singing the sapien song oh! just drive me home & back into history
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