05 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
A Poem About What Makes Humans Unique
When I undertook to answer
My own 1927 self-questioning:
"Why have humans been included
In the design of Universe?"
My hypothetical answer of 1927
Was, and as yet is:
What impresses me most
Is the experientially demonstrable fact
That all living organisms
Other than humans
Have some organically integral equipment
That gives them some inherent
Physical advantage
In coping with special environmental conditions--
A plant that can and does thrive
Only under dense Amazon
River jungle conditions--
...In comparison to other species and our place in the universe from Buckminster Fuller.