you know how you become intelligent?
by playing the idiot;
lies walk on short legs,
sooner or later, once enough lies have
been told, people "mysteriously"
shut up, and turn into "claustrophobics"
in their own little lives;
nothing quite like the szalinski affair;
ah yes, the simple lives,
        those "complicated" lives,
                       the unlived lives;
as long as another batch comes back
into the grand theatre
you'll get nothing but applause!
      point being - some people enter
and leave quasi-copies of themselves,
they have children, and leave behind
a genetic history,
  a history that's so mundane it ought
to scold an atheistic tongue -
some people mark their presence
with what is best described as:
  that summa populus -
  and people are afraid of that...
                those who want the 3.2 chills
of diaper changing, dog and
life insurance...
and then there are those...
   who leave a shadow,
     that arches over a polygamous
americana of 32 brats from 5 women
and 1 man.