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I studied for years every clue that's been found
of the earliest humanoid race,
and I had to conclude they bumbled around
without lips, eyes, or nose—with no face.
It's the archeologists who I would blame
for the widespread mistaken beliefs:
when they find a new jawbone, they all do the same--
reconstructing fake facial reliefs.
Anyway, we know one inescapable truth:
that we humans gained faces, one day.
Some God must have let them pick eyes, ears, and mouth.
(They could not pick the nose, need I say?)
However they did it, brown eyes went to some,
and some of them delicate blues,…
some picked dark skin, some picked fat, some were thin,
some, ears big enough to hear Whos.
To me, all those mouths would have looked the same way.
To their dentist, they didn’t, I suppose.
But, as I have said, none were given a say
in the matter concerning the nose.
Can you guess how I know? Just consider the beak
that those harsh gods gave the primal Albert.
If he'd had a choice, he'd have picked one… oblique,
without such protuberant flair.