Chimp Thinking
Here I sit, and here I think
About the human noddle
And watch it as it starts to shrink
(A most inferior model)
I am a simple chimp, whose brain
Is fit from start to finish
It never feels the human’s strain
Nor does its size diminish
The human matter wastes away
While waiting for nirvana
But I sit here each passing day
And I am top banana
Why does the homo sapiens
Have cells which pine and dwindle?
Is it because he has no friends,
And swaggers, loves to swindle?
Perhaps the way that he’s obsessed
With war and land and money
Leaves all his head in such unrest
It makes his brains go runny
Whatever. When man’s brain’s a pea
That rattles round a skull
I am a simple chimpanzee
Whose life is never dull
I watch their fading memories
Unwinding in their mind –
The monkey in the tree agrees:
Give thanks we’re not mankind
