abdulhakeem
30-09-05, 08:17 PM
The evolution of mankind
Once those chaps cowered on the trees,
hairy and with a grimly visage.
Then they were lured from the jungle
and the world was asphalted and extended,
up to the thirtieth floor.
There they sat now, fled from the fleas,
in centralheated rooms.
There they sit now at the telephone.
And still prevails exactly the same tone
as at that time on the trees.
They hear far. They watch television.
They are in contact with the universe.
They brush the teeth. They breathe modern.
The earth is a created star
with lots of water flushing.
They shoot the letters through a pipe.
They hunt and breed microbes.
They provide the nature with all comfort.
They steeply fly aloft to the sky
and stay up there two weeks.
What their digestion has spared,
they convert into cotton wool.
They split atoms. They cure incest.
And by style investigations they detect
that Caesar had a flat foot.
Thus, they created with the head and the mouth
the progress of mankind.
But apart from that and
watched in the light
they are still after all
the (same) old apes.
roughly translated from the german poem “die entwicklung der menschheit” by erich kaestner: abdulhakeem
Once those chaps cowered on the trees,
hairy and with a grimly visage.
Then they were lured from the jungle
and the world was asphalted and extended,
up to the thirtieth floor.
There they sat now, fled from the fleas,
in centralheated rooms.
There they sit now at the telephone.
And still prevails exactly the same tone
as at that time on the trees.
They hear far. They watch television.
They are in contact with the universe.
They brush the teeth. They breathe modern.
The earth is a created star
with lots of water flushing.
They shoot the letters through a pipe.
They hunt and breed microbes.
They provide the nature with all comfort.
They steeply fly aloft to the sky
and stay up there two weeks.
What their digestion has spared,
they convert into cotton wool.
They split atoms. They cure incest.
And by style investigations they detect
that Caesar had a flat foot.
Thus, they created with the head and the mouth
the progress of mankind.
But apart from that and
watched in the light
they are still after all
the (same) old apes.
roughly translated from the german poem “die entwicklung der menschheit” by erich kaestner: abdulhakeem