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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: The Rise and Fall of Humanity

January 28, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Since Hominids arose to walk, and made a fire and learned to talk
A lot of stuff has come to pass, so listen up its happening fast

Humans came disrupting order, writing words creating borders
Praying to their angry gods, other species thought them odd

Leaders rose and ruled with might, armies trained to kill and fight
Trojans, Romans, mighty Huns, taking land increasing funds

People learning lots of jive, give a speech and fly and drive
Cut the trees and cull the herds, explain it all with lots of words

On and on it goes on still, living longer taking pills
Our house of cards might soon collapse, the future is a game of craps

Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”

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