A Rant on Man:
An Anti-Misanthropy

The builder
The pattern-seeker
The engineer of dreams

Mover of mountains
Layer of hills
Upright beasts
With Earth-moving machines

Conqueror of genes
Wearer of Levi’s
Painter of paintings
That look in and out
In and out
Souls on display
Alternately hidden

One world to the next
And back again
Ship to ship
Water to air
Space to beyond thought

Poetrying
Singing
Dancing
Shouting
Loving
Eating
Dozing

Philosophising philosophy
Methodising the sciences
Master of fates
His Own
Your Own
The World’s
Steward
Long drunk
Now getting sober
And hope on his side