Like Teaching Apes to Fly

the teacher learns and the

student teaches toward

rudimentary self-teaching

über-genes twitching in

dormant helixes.

we preach hatred to mute

choruses ingratiating

the flames with a lapping tongue;

soaring begins with the

crawling slug, a backbone

springs from the determined

amoeba;

we learn to decipher

the universal stone

only to utter good-bye

with a yawn, the dawn

escaping from an apish entrée.

©2002 Ray Timmins