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***BIO*** Damion Hamilton: I am twenty seven years old and live in Saint Louis Missouri.  I have poems upcoming in the Chiron Review.
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Evolution
by Damion Hamilton
Man makes telephone wires, and somehow squirrels
have adapted to this, and walk across them without
being electrocuted

Man makes cars, and somehow they have learned to avoid
the wheels and speed of these machines, even though a few
will be squashed occasionally

Squirrels are smarter than humans; they don't drive cars,
they try to avoid them

Humans like the squirrel have seen too much: wars, famines, epidemics;
but we must adapt, like the squirrel,
making it's way to the curb, and up a tree, with acorns
in it's mouth trembling
Oct. 2006
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