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From the album "Brown Town" (2013)

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ANTHROPOPULATION

The only education back in school
was in looking cute and acting cool,
designed to make one hip, not wise –
anthropology internalized –
and now I know that all iId learned
was not to scream while getting burned,
and never let them see me sweat,
and hope by next year they'll forget.

And out into the world we spread,
to find the diet we'd been fed
wasn't quite enough to grow on –
assert ourselves, succeed, and so on –
except for those who had been prepped
for surest footing where they stepped
along a shortcut to the top,
where, if we'd try to climb, we'd drop.

From this no one escapes
but exceptionally clever apes:
one mind – one folk – one nation
one single anthropopulation.

Some people get, some people don't;
some never will, some never won't,
and such will either just expect –
anthropology is in effect:
survival of the this- or that-est –
starve the thin and feed the fattest –
to preserve the status quo,
and don't admit to what you know.

© 2013 Steve Fitch

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from My Velvet Rut: Another Compilation of Stuff by Me, released March 20, 2014
Music, lyrics & recording © 2013 Steve Fitch; published by My Music by Me Muisic (BMI).

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