{voyage of a beagle} spencer dew “It is reasonable to suppose that man’s capacities As a knower Are also a product of evolution, of nature” I am thinking of your throat, its intelligent design Backless, slinky, with a knack for the staggering “Man’s knowing must be some kind of natural relation to his world.” True sentences, is today’s trivial topic The route of things, whether singing fancy songs helps songbirds Like sonar for bats and submarines The locusts come up every seventeen years And the bees dance round in circles of eight You have no discernible gag reflex And this, alone, amazes me |