if you saw another kind of human?
maybe a Neanderthal when
you were out walking or
if you saw another kind of person,
hunting or whatever it is
you were both out walking for -
that proper humans do
hunting or whatever it is you’d do
Would it be like when,
as proper humans do,
you were an artless child and you saw
would it be like then
when an Indian doctor looked after you
you were only a child when you saw
for the first time, or did it feel
Like an Indian doctor
seeing a gorilla with knowing eyes
for the first time, or did he see
a gentle orang-utan
seeing a Gorilla with knowing eyes
at the zoo and did he think,
that gentle orang-utan: ‘is he
wondering what I’m thinking too?’
At the zoo. And thinking: ‘Is he,
that mild Neanderthal man, or whoever
wondering what I’m thinking too?’
How would that feel?
