To be human, they told us
would be all about
balance:
to walk upright
would steal dignity
from the belly-crawling class.
Sure enough,
our particulars
would soon tend
toward the over-
determined,
while their context
was so delicate,
it had to be crafted
from scratch.
But what nobody mentioned
was that opposites
attract—
we consisted of
infinitesimal points,
half of which
had
what the other half
lacked.
(Were we supposed
to act proud—
or jealous
of that?)
