i am only a human with a human brain
there are many things i can not explain
not even to the bees or to the ants
to the king of spain or the queen of france
long ago in the primal ooze
i was a lizard and paid my dues
i crawled out of the mud and sat on the bank
and had only myself to thank
i dreamed my dreams one at a time
doing nothing was not a crime
seasons came, and seasons went
and hardly a halfpenny was spent
wise men appeared, but have no fear
only once every thousand years
you could sit beside a waterfall
with nothing in your mind at all
you could think your own thoughts
or maybe not
one at a time, one at a time
plato threw you a nickel, and buddha a lousy dime
now we have the information age
everything written on one big page
a river of facts that never ends
old number nine trillion comes around the bend -
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