CHI 102 OT IND 100
Don’t forget:
We are still
The most perfect predator
The world has ever known.
Not because we have sharp claws
Or great speed
Or poisonous venom
Or impenetrable exoskeletons--
We don’t.
And it’s not that stuff
We do have,
Either.
The big brains or
The funny thumbs or
The ability to make tools out of bones
And houses out of cow shit.
And it’s not even because
We have mastered the mystic forces:
Fire and lightning.
Rock, paper,
And scissors.
What makes us so dangerous
Isn’t the how
But the
Why.
Few of us
Kill to eat.
We kill for pride.
We kill
To compensate.
Clawless and slow,
We make AK-47s
And Lamborghinis.
Who’s the lion now,
Lion?
We make poisonous venom
And pour it wherever-the-hell-we-want.
We cut down the forests
To build fortresses for us.
Our feelings of inadequacy
And powerlessness
Are the very source of our strength.
And it is guerilla warfare
Evolved.
We exploit our own weaknesses
Until weakness ferments
Into power.
We are still
The most perfect predator
The world has ever known.
Not because we have sharp claws
Or great speed
Or poisonous venom
Or impenetrable exoskeletons--
We don’t.
And it’s not that stuff
We do have,
Either.
The big brains or
The funny thumbs or
The ability to make tools out of bones
And houses out of cow shit.
And it’s not even because
We have mastered the mystic forces:
Fire and lightning.
Rock, paper,
And scissors.
What makes us so dangerous
Isn’t the how
But the
Why.
Few of us
Kill to eat.
We kill for pride.
We kill
To compensate.
Clawless and slow,
We make AK-47s
And Lamborghinis.
Who’s the lion now,
Lion?
We make poisonous venom
And pour it wherever-the-hell-we-want.
We cut down the forests
To build fortresses for us.
Our feelings of inadequacy
And powerlessness
Are the very source of our strength.
And it is guerilla warfare
Evolved.
We exploit our own weaknesses
Until weakness ferments
Into power.
#HoopsHaiku
Jimmy the Jedi
Willing and redirecting
Rather than shooting.
Willing and redirecting
Rather than shooting.
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