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Full Circle
Tom Russell With all they had to worry about, Neanderthals probably never gave a thought to tetanus. Some probably wore primitive shoes that were not wingtips. There were no shards of glass or rusty tin cans under the post-pterodactyl sky. If one of the primitives contracted the disease from a sharp tool he’d made, he might soon have double-X eyelids. One of them had to be the first to die from it. Had to be the first to die of something. That one brought the birth of death to the species. How long did it take the others to realize he would never hunt or fish again? What made them decide to bury the dead? Was it the stench of a decaying body or did they have spiritual beliefs? Maybe we’ll start to understand as our own kind fades or a pandemic kills somewhere in the neighborhood of everyone, leaving us with useless iPhones to be replaced by sticks and stones in pursuit of fire. |
Street art by thepinkbear.rebel
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