Human Nature
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The sun does not begin to rise because
Of songbirds singing. Manly brains know this.
The dawn begins to break because of laws
Of physics. Other thoughts would be amiss.
Or are they? Suns will rise without the songs
Of skylarks but then, what would be the point?
Birds’ singing in pre-dawn dark belongs
To sunrise. Otherwise would be disjoint
With human nature. Eon lengths of dawns
Men did not know about the lark-less rules
That drive our solar system. In the Bronze
Age, men could make their gorgeous, useful tools
Despite belief in pretty notions like the throat
Of twittering creatures making sunrise float.
~ Phillip Whidden