This is the first link to all humans,” Jorn Hurum, paleontologist, Natural History Museum, Oslo
Her tail is longer than her trunk.
So what has she to do with me?
Please step aside while I debunk
the notion that this brittle chunk
of dirt and bones in Germany,
this trail of lug nuts in a trunk,
connects me to the lost homunc-
ulus in Darwin’s recipe.
Just step aside while I debunk
this “missing link,” this tidy hunk
of Eocenic property,
entailing lumbars up the trunk.
This end-to-end neanderthunk.
Atypical. (A travesty!).
Now, step aside while I debunk
this lemur-like primatoskunk
(can we just leave the lemurs be?)
whose tail is longer than her trunk.
Do step aside as I debunk…
