Brute Beasts (Barzelletta)

Gary Edward Geraci

 

We are a composite and so

Greater than the brute animal

We are a rational mammal

Of body and soul, this we know.

 

The size of an almond, some think,

Our amygdala is to blame;

The seat of our bias, poison ink,

And where our fears lie, less than tame.

Neuroplasticity, proclaim

The world’s learned, both friend and foe,

 

We are a rational mammal!

Of body and Soul, this we know.

 

Less we believe but in a blink,

Let it dominate, all the same,

To the precipice, to the brink

We’d go, playing a blindfold game,

With people seeking pow’r and fame,

And run like beasts from whip and whoa.

 

We are a composite and so

Greater than the brute animal.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

  • Author: Gary Edward Geraci (Offline Offline)
  • Published: December 3rd, 2022 10:06
  • Comment from author about the poem: Inspired by a ridiculously manipulative ideological propaganda piece called “Unconscious Bias Training”; a mandatory training session at my government workplace. Thankfully, course feedback was solicited at the end of the program of which I prudently indulged.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • orchidee

    Not a hideous 'team building' session?!
    Now - in some work programmes - how does one literally 'multi-task'? Do one thing with left hand while doing something else with right hand? Doh!



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